Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The marginal reference completes the sense of this verse here. The passage is in accordance with archaic modes of speech, and is probably the more verbally accurate of the two.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 8:16:
2 Samuel 7:7
2 Samuel 7:13
John 4:20
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