1 Kings 8:54-61

Solomon's Benediction

54 ¹When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the LORD, ²he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

55 And he stood and ³blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:

56 "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, ⁴according to all that He promised; ⁵not 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; ⁶may He not leave us or forsake us,

58 that ⁷He 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,

60 so ⁸that all the peoples of the earth may know that ⁹the LORD is God; there is no one else.

61 "¹⁰Let 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 8:54-61 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

Cross References 10

1. 2 Chronicles 7:1
2. 2 Chronicles 6:13
3. Numbers 6:23-26; 2 Samuel 6:18; 1 Kings 8:14
4. Deuteronomy 12:10
5. Joshua 21:45; Joshua 23:14, 15
6. Deuteronomy 31:6, 17; Joshua 1:5; 1 Samuel 12:22; Romans 8:31; Hebrews 13:5
7. Psalms 119:36; Jeremiah 31:33
8. Joshua 4:24; 1 Samuel 17:46; 1 Kings 8:43; 2 Kings 19:19
9. Deuteronomy 4:35; 1 Kings 18:39; Jeremiah 10:10-12
10. Deuteronomy 18:13; 1 Kings 11:4; 2 Kings 20:3

Footnotes 9

[a]. Lit "palms"
[b]. Lit "spoke"
[c]. Lit "fallen"
[d]. Lit "word"
[e]. Lit "spoke"
[f]. Lit "judgment"
[g]. Lit "judgment"
[h]. Lit "the thing of a day in its day"
[i]. Lit "complete with"