And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you for ever.” When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord,

On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

“These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.

He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.

Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

Solomon Blesses the Lord

Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’, thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's thighs.

Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

Solomon Blesses the People

Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's thighs.

That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defences are defences of clay.

running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;

Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’

yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.