1 Kings 9:8

KJV

And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

— 1 Kings 9:8, King James Version
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God warns Solomon that if Israel forsakes the covenant, the magnificent Temple will become a byword: 'at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss.' The hissing (shereqah) was an ancient expression of shocked contempt at something fallen from greatness — the very height of the Temple's glory makes its desolation the more shocking. The prophetic-historical trajectory of this warning was realized in the Babylonian destruction of 587 BCE, which Lamentations (2:15-16) describes in strikingly similar terms: 'all who pass by clap their hands at you.' The theological principle — that covenant violation desolates the most sacred spaces — is also implicit in Jesus' cleansing of the Temple and his prediction of its destruction in Matthew 24:2.

Autres traductions

ASV

And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?

YLT

as to this house, <FI>that<Fi> is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

BBE

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

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