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1 Kings 8:61
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"1Let 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 8:61 Meaning and Commentary
1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord your God,
&c.] Sincere in their love to him, united in their worship of him, and constant in their obedience to him:
to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day:
as they did that day, neither king nor people having as yet fallen into idolatry, but showing by their then present appearance a zeal for God, his house, and worship.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
1 Kings 8:61 In-Context
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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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so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no one else.
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"Let 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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Now the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifice before the LORD .
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Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD , 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD .
Cross References 1
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Deuteronomy 18:13 ;1 Kings 11:4 ;2 Kings 20:3
Footnotes 1
- [a]. Lit "complete with"
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