1 Re 8:53

53 poiché tu li hai appartati da tutti i popoli della terra per farne la tua eredità; come dichiarasti per mezzo del tuo servo Mosè, quando traesti dall’Egitto i padri nostri, o Signore, o Eterno!"

1 Re 8:53 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 8:53

For thou didst separate them from among all people of the
earth to be thine inheritance
By his choice of them in his own mind, by the redemption of them out of Egypt, by the peculiar laws he gave them, and by the special blessings he conferred upon them:

as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest
our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord our God;
it was he that spake this to Moses, and by him to the people, ( Exodus 19:5 Exodus 19:6 ) and it was he that did it, namely, separate them from all nations, to be his people and peculiar treasure: in this and the two preceding verses Solomon makes use of arguments taken from what the people of Israel were to the Lord, and he had done for them, to engage him to hearken to their supplications, and here ends his long prayer; in ( 2 Chronicles 6:1 ) some things are added at the close of it, and some omitted.

1 Re 8:53 In-Context

51 giacché essi sono il tuo popolo, la tua eredità, e tu li hai tratti fuor dall’Egitto, di mezzo a una fornace da ferro!
52 Siano aperti gli occhi tuoi alle supplicazioni del tuo servo e alle supplicazioni del tuo popolo Israele, per esaudirli in tutto quello che ti chiederanno;
53 poiché tu li hai appartati da tutti i popoli della terra per farne la tua eredità; come dichiarasti per mezzo del tuo servo Mosè, quando traesti dall’Egitto i padri nostri, o Signore, o Eterno!"
54 Or quando Salomone ebbe finito di rivolgere all’Eterno tutta questa preghiera e questa supplicazione, s’alzò di davanti all’altare dell’Eterno dove stava inginocchiato tenendo le mani stese verso il cielo.
55 E, levatosi in piè, benedisse tutta la raunanza d’Israele ad alta voce, dicendo:
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