Text: 1 Kings 8:15
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 12:5
Subject: choosing a place and choosing David
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme
Significance: In 1 Kings 8:15-21, Solomon's dedication speech identifies the temple as the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 12:5's command to seek "the place which the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put His name there" (לְשַׁכֵּן שְׁמוֹ שָׁם, leshakken shemo sham). Solomon declares that God has now chosen both a city and a king: "I chose David... and I chose Jerusalem, that My name might be there." The Deuteronomic formula of the "chosen place" — deliberately unnamed by Moses — receives its definitive answer in Solomon's identification of Jerusalem's temple. What Deuteronomy left intentionally open, the temple dedication resolves.
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Text: Deuteronomy 12:5
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 8:15
Subject: temple dedication
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Significance: Moses speaks of "the place the LORD your God will choose... to establish as a dwelling for His Name" (לְשַׁכֵּן שְׁמוֹ, leshakken shemo), and Solomon's temple dedication begins with the declaration that the LORD has fulfilled His promise by choosing a city and a dynasty to house His Name. Solomon's statement that "I have built the house for the Name of the LORD" (1 Kgs 8:20) is a direct claim to fulfill the Deuteronomic centralization command. The "Name theology" shared by both texts—where God's Name rather than God's essential being dwells in the sanctuary—provides the theological framework for understanding divine presence in a specific locale without limiting the transcendent God to a physical structure.