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1 Kings 8:51-61
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These are your people and your inheritance. You brought them out of Egypt, from the iron furnace.
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Open your eyes to your servant's request and to the request of your people Israel. Hear them whenever they cry out to you.
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You set them apart from all the earth's peoples as your own inheritance, LORD, just as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.
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As soon as Solomon finished praying and making these requests to the LORD, he got up from before the LORD's altar, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out to heaven.
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He stood up and blessed the whole Israelite assembly in a loud voice:
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"May the LORD be blessed! He has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. He hasn't neglected any part of the good promise he made through his servant Moses.
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May the LORD our God be with us, just as he was with our ancestors. May he never leave us or abandon us.
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May he draw our hearts to him to walk in all his ways and observe his commands, his laws, and his judgments that he gave our ancestors.
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And may these words of mine that I have cried out before the LORD remain near to the LORD our God day and night so that he may do right by his servant and his people Israel for each day's need,
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and so that all the earth's peoples may know that the LORD is God. There is no other God!
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Now may you be committed to the LORD our God with all your heart by following his laws and observing his commands, just as you are doing right now."
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1 Kings 8:51-61 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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