1 Kings 8:49-59

49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

50 and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and ¹make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them

51 (²for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, ³from the midst of the iron furnace ),

52 ⁴that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You.

53 "For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, ⁵as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD."

Solomon's Benediction

54 ⁶When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the LORD, ⁷he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

55 And he stood and ⁸blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:

56 "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, ⁹according to all that He promised; ¹⁰not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant.

57 "May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; ¹¹may He not leave us or forsake us,

58 that ¹²He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers.

59 "And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires,

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1 Kings 8:49-59 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

Cross References 12

1. 2 Chronicles 30:9; Psalms 106:46; Acts 7:10
2. Exodus 32:11, 12; Deuteronomy 9:26-29
3. Deuteronomy 4:20; Jeremiah 11:4
4. 1 Kings 8:29
5. Exodus 19:5, 6; Deuteronomy 9:26-29
6. 2 Chronicles 7:1
7. 2 Chronicles 6:13
8. Numbers 6:23-26; 2 Samuel 6:18; 1 Kings 8:14
9. Deuteronomy 12:10
10. Joshua 21:45; Joshua 23:14, 15
11. Deuteronomy 31:6, 17; Joshua 1:5; 1 Samuel 12:22; Romans 8:31; Hebrews 13:5
12. Psalms 119:36; Jeremiah 31:33

Footnotes 10

[a]. Lit "judgment"
[b]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD
[c]. Lit "palms"
[d]. Lit "spoke"
[e]. Lit "fallen"
[f]. Lit "word"
[g]. Lit "spoke"
[h]. Lit "judgment"
[i]. Lit "judgment"
[j]. Lit "the thing of a day in its day"