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1 Kings 8:53-63
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"For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, 1as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD."
Solomon's Benediction
54 2When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the LORD, 3he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.
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"Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, 5according to all that He promised; 6not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant.
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"May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; 7may He not leave us or forsake us,
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that 8He 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.
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"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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"11Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day."
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1 Kings 8:53-63 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 14
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Exodus 19:5, 6 ;Deuteronomy 9:26-29 -
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2 Chronicles 7:1 -
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2 Chronicles 6:13 -
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Numbers 6:23-26 ;2 Samuel 6:18 ;1 Kings 8:14 -
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Deuteronomy 12:10 -
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Joshua 21:45 ;Joshua 23:14, 15 -
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Deuteronomy 31:6, 17 ;Joshua 1:5 ;1 Samuel 12:22 ;Romans 8:31 ;Hebrews 13:5 -
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Psalms 119:36 ;Jeremiah 31:33 -
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Joshua 4:24 ;1 Samuel 17:46 ;1 Kings 8:43 ;2 Kings 19:19 -
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Deuteronomy 4:35 ;1 Kings 18:39 ;Jeremiah 10:10-12 -
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Deuteronomy 18:13 ;1 Kings 11:4 ;2 Kings 20:3 -
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2 Chronicles 7:4-10 -
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2 Samuel 6:17-19 ;Ezra 6:16, 17 -
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Ezra 6:15-18 ;Nehemiah 12:27
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