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1 Kings 8:22-66

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The Prayer of Dedication

22 Then 1Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and 2spread out his hands toward heaven.
23 He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, 3there is no God like You in heaven above * or on earth beneath *, 4keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,
24 who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day.
25 "Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, '5You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.'
26 "Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Your word, I pray, be confirmed 6which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.
27 "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, 7heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much * less this house which I have built!
28 "Yet have regard to the 8prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today;
29 9that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward 10the place of which You have said, 'My name shall be there,' to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.
30 "11Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, 12when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and 13forgive.
31 "14If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,
32 then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, 15condemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.
33 "16When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, 17if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house,
34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.
35 "18When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,
36 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, 19indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And 20send rain on Your land, which You have given Your people for an inheritance.
37 "21If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
38 whatever * prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house;
39 then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, 22whose heart You know, for 23You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,
40 that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.
41 "Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name's sake
42 (for they will hear of Your great name 24and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm ); when he comes and prays toward this house,
43 hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order 25that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name.
44 "When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and 26they pray to the LORD toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,
45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
46 "When they sin against You (for 27there is no man who does not sin ) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive 28to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
47 29if they take thought in the land where * they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, '30We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly ';
48 31if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and 32pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;
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 33make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them
51 (34for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, 35from the midst of the iron furnace ),
52 36that 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, 37as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD."

Solomon's Benediction

54 38When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the LORD, 39he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.
55 And he stood and 40blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:
56 "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, 41according to all that He promised; 42not 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; 43may He not leave us or forsake us,
58 that 44He 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 45that all the peoples of the earth may know that 46the LORD is God; there is no one else.
61 "47Let 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 48Now the king and all Israel with him 49offered 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. 50So 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 51the 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 52Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly 53from the entrance of Hamath 54to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen * days.
66 On the eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed the king. Then they went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David His servant and to Israel His people.
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1 Kings 8:22-66 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 54

  • 1. 1 Kings 8:54; 2 Chronicles 6:12
  • 2. Exodus 9:33; Ezra 9:5
  • 3. 1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 7:22
  • 4. Deuteronomy 7:9; Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 9:32; Daniel 9:4
  • 5. 1 Kings 2:4
  • 6. 2 Samuel 7:25
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 2:6; Psalms 139:7-16; Isaiah 66:1; Jeremiah 23:24; Acts 7:49
  • 8. Philippians 4:6
  • 9. 2 Chronicles 7:15; Nehemiah 1:6
  • 10. Deuteronomy 12:11
  • 11. Nehemiah 1:6
  • 12. Daniel 6:10
  • 13. Exodus 34:6, 7; Psalms 85:2; Daniel 9:9; 1 John 1:9
  • 14. Exodus 22:8-11
  • 15. Deuteronomy 25:1
  • 16. Leviticus 26:17, 25; Deuteronomy 28:25, 48
  • 17. Leviticus 26:40-42
  • 18. Leviticus 26:19; Deuteronomy 11:16, 17; 2 Samuel 24:10-13
  • 19. 1 Samuel 12:23; Psalms 5:8; Psalms 25:4, 5; Psalms 27:11; Psalms 86:11; Psalms 119:133; Jeremiah 6:16
  • 20. 1 Kin 18:1, 41-45; Jeremiah 14:22
  • 21. Lev 26:16, 25, 26; Deut 28:21-23, 38-42
  • 22. 1 Samuel 2:3; 1 Samuel 16:7
  • 23. 1 Chronicles 28:9; Psalms 11:4; Jeremiah 17:10; John 2:24, 25; Acts 1:24
  • 24. Exodus 13:3; Deuteronomy 3:24
  • 25. Joshua 4:23, 24; 1 Samuel 17:46; Psalms 67:2
  • 26. 2 Chronicles 14:11
  • 27. Psalms 130:3, 4; Psalms 143:2; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8-10
  • 28. Leviticus 26:34-39; 2 Kings 17:6, 18; 2 Kings 25:21
  • 29. Leviticus 26:40-42; Nehemiah 9:2
  • 30. Ezra 9:6, 7; Nehemiah 1:6; Psalms 106:6; Daniel 9:5
  • 31. Deuteronomy 4:29; 1 Samuel 7:3, 4; Nehemiah 1:9
  • 32. Daniel 6:10; Jonah 2:4
  • 33. 2 Chronicles 30:9; Psalms 106:46; Acts 7:10
  • 34. Exodus 32:11, 12; Deuteronomy 9:26-29
  • 35. Deuteronomy 4:20; Jeremiah 11:4
  • 36. 1 Kings 8:29
  • 37. Exodus 19:5, 6; Deuteronomy 9:26-29
  • 38. 2 Chronicles 7:1
  • 39. 2 Chronicles 6:13
  • 40. Numbers 6:23-26; 2 Samuel 6:18; 1 Kings 8:14
  • 41. Deuteronomy 12:10
  • 42. Joshua 21:45; Joshua 23:14, 15
  • 43. Deuteronomy 31:6, 17; Joshua 1:5; 1 Samuel 12:22; Romans 8:31; Hebrews 13:5
  • 44. Psalms 119:36; Jeremiah 31:33
  • 45. Joshua 4:24; 1 Samuel 17:46; 1 Kings 8:43; 2 Kings 19:19
  • 46. Deuteronomy 4:35; 1 Kings 18:39; Jeremiah 10:10-12
  • 47. Deuteronomy 18:13; 1 Kings 11:4; 2 Kings 20:3
  • 48. 2 Chronicles 7:4-10
  • 49. 2 Samuel 6:17-19; Ezra 6:16, 17
  • 50. Ezra 6:15-18; Nehemiah 12:27
  • 51. 2 Chronicles 4:1
  • 52. Leviticus 23:34-42; 1 Kings 8:2
  • 53. Numbers 34:8; Joshua 13:5; Judges 3:3; 2 Kings 14:25
  • 54. Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Numbers 34:5; Joshua 13:3

Footnotes 31

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