1 Kings 8:61
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After Solomon had finished praying to the Lord, he stood up in front of the altar, where he had been kneeling with uplifted hands.
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In a loud voice he asked God's blessings on all the people assembled there. He said,
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"Praise the Lord who has given his people peace, as he promised he would. He has kept all the generous promises he made through his servant Moses. 1
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May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us or abandon us;
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may he make us obedient to him, so that we will always live as he wants us to live, keeping all the laws and commands he gave our ancestors.
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May the Lord our God remember at all times this prayer and these petitions I have made to him. May he always be merciful to the people of Israel and to their king, according to their daily needs.
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And so all the nations of the world will know that the Lord alone is God - there is no other.
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May you, his people, always be faithful to the Lord our God, obeying all his laws and commands as you do today."
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1 Kings 8:54-61 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 8
This chapter gives an account of the introduction of the ark into the temple, 1Ki 8:1-9 of the glory of the Lord filling it, 1Ki 8:10,11 of a speech Solomon made to the people concerning the building of the temple, and how he came to be engaged in it, 1Ki 8:12-21, of a prayer of his he put up on this occasion, requesting, that what supplications soever were made at any time, or on any account, by Israelites or strangers, might be accepted by the Lord, 1Ki 8:22-53, and of his blessing the people of Israel at the close of it, with some useful exhortations, 1Ki 8:54-61, and of the great number of sacrifices offered up by him, and the feast he made for the people, upon which he dismissed them, 1Ki 8:62-66.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Deuteronomy 12.10 ;Joshua 21.44, 45 .
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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