1 Kings 8:55-65

55 And he stood and ¹blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:

56 "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, ²according to all that He promised; ³not 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; ⁴may He not leave us or forsake us,

58 that ⁵He 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 ⁶that all the peoples of the earth may know that ⁷the LORD is God; there is no one else.

61 "⁸Let 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."

Dedicatory Sacrifices

62 ⁹Now the king and all Israel with him ¹⁰offered sacrifice before the LORD.

63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 * * oxen and 120,000 * * sheep. ¹¹So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

64 On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, because there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings; for ¹²the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings.

65 So ¹³Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly ¹⁴from the entrance of Hamath ¹⁵to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen * days.

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1 Kings 8:55-65 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 15

1. Numbers 6:23-26; 2 Samuel 6:18; 1 Kings 8:14
2. Deuteronomy 12:10
3. Joshua 21:45; Joshua 23:14, 15
4. Deuteronomy 31:6, 17; Joshua 1:5; 1 Samuel 12:22; Romans 8:31; Hebrews 13:5
5. Psalms 119:36; Jeremiah 31:33
6. Joshua 4:24; 1 Samuel 17:46; 1 Kings 8:43; 2 Kings 19:19
7. Deuteronomy 4:35; 1 Kings 18:39; Jeremiah 10:10-12
8. Deuteronomy 18:13; 1 Kings 11:4; 2 Kings 20:3
9. 2 Chronicles 7:4-10
10. 2 Samuel 6:17-19; Ezra 6:16, 17
11. Ezra 6:15-18; Nehemiah 12:27
12. 2 Chronicles 4:1
13. Leviticus 23:34-42; 1 Kings 8:2
14. Numbers 34:8; Joshua 13:5; Judges 3:3; 2 Kings 14:25
15. Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Numbers 34:5; Joshua 13:3

Footnotes 9

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