1 Kings 8:51

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For they are your people and your inheritance;you brought them out of Egypt,out of the middle of an iron furnace.

Hebrew Names Version
(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Mitzrayim, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

King James Version
For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

English Standard Version
(for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).

New Century Version
Remember, they are your special people. You brought them out of Egypt, as if you were pulling them out of a blazing furnace.

New English Translation
After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

Amplified Bible
(for they are Your people and Your heritage, whom You brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace [of slavery and oppression]),

New American Standard Bible
(for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace),

Geneva Bible (1587)
For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out of Egypt from the middes of the yron fornace.

Legacy Standard Bible
(for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace),

Contemporary English Version
Remember, they are the people you chose and rescued from Egypt that was like a blazing fire to them.

Complete Jewish Bible
for they are your people, your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, out of the flames of the iron furnace.

Darby Translation
(for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron)—

Easy-to-Read Version
Remember that they are your people and that you brought them out of Egypt. It was as if you saved them by pulling them out of a hot oven!

George Lamsa Translation
For they are thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou didst bring forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron;

Good News Translation
They are your own people, whom you brought out of Egypt, that blazing furnace.

Lexham English Bible
for they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought from Egypt from the middle of the smelter of iron.

Literal Translation
For they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for they are thy people, and thyne enheritaunce, whom thou broughtest out of Egipte, from the yron fornace:

American Standard Version
(for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

Bible in Basic English
For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they be thy people, and thyne inheritaunce, whiche thou broughtest out of Egypt, euen from the middest of the fornace of iron.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
for they are Thy people, and Thine inheritance, which Thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron;

King James Version (1611)
For they bee thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest foorth out of Egypt, from the mids of the furnace of iron:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
for they are thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron.

English Revised Version
For they be thy people, and thine inheritance which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

Berean Standard Bible
For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For it is thi puple, and thin erytage, whiche thou leddist out of the lond of Egipt, fro the myddis of yrone furneis;

Young's Literal Translation
(for Thy people and Thy inheritance [are] they, whom Thou didst bring out of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron) --

Update Bible Version
(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

Webster's Bible Translation
For they [are] thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou broughtest out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

World English Bible
(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

New King James Version
(for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace),

New Living Translation
for they are your people—your special possession—whom you brought out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt.

New Life Bible
For they are Your people and Your children whom You have brought out of Egypt, from the iron fire-place.

New Revised Standard
(for they are your people and heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron-smelter).

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
because, thy people and thine inheritance, they are, - whom thou didst bring forth out of Egypt, out of the midst of the smelting-pot of iron;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.

Revised Standard Version
(for they are thy people, and thy heritage, which thou didst bring out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).

New American Standard Bible (1995)
(for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace),

Contextual Overview

²²Before the entire congregation of Israel, Solomon took a position before the Altar, spread his hands out before heaven, and prayed, O God , God of Israel, there is no God like you in the skies above or on the earth below who unswervingly keeps covenant with his servants and relentlessly loves them as they sincerely live in obedience to your way. You kept your word to David my father, your personal word. You did exactly what you promised—every detail. The proof is before us today! Keep it up, God , O God of Israel! Continue to keep the promises you made to David my father when you said, "You'll always have a descendant to represent my rule on Israel's throne, on the condition that your sons are as careful to live obediently in my presence as you have." ²⁶ O God of Israel, let this all happen; confirm and establish it! ²⁷Can it be that God will actually move into our neighborhood? Why, the cosmos itself isn't large enough to give you breathing room, let alone this Temple I've built. Even so, I'm bold to ask: Pay attention to these my prayers, both intercessory and personal, O God , my God. Listen to my prayers, energetic and devout, that I'm setting before you right now. Keep your eyes open to this Temple night and day, this place of which you said, "My Name will be honored there," and listen to the prayers that I pray at this place. Listen from your home in heaven and when you hear, forgive. When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple, listen from heaven and act accordingly: Judge your servants, making the offender pay for his offense and setting the offended free of any charges. ³³When your people Israel are beaten by an enemy because they've sinned against you, but then turn to you and acknowledge your rule in prayers desperate and devout in this Temple, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, return them to the land you gave their ancestors. ³⁵When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this place, acknowledging your rule and quitting their sins because you have scourged them, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Then start over with them: Train them to live right and well; send rain on the land you gave your people as an inheritance. ³⁷When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, locust or beetle, or when an enemy attacks their defenses—calamity of any sort—any prayer that's prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, hearts penetrated by the disaster, hands and arms thrown out to this Temple for help, Listen from your home in heaven. Forgive and go to work on us. Give what each deserves, for you know each life from the inside (you're the only one with such "inside knowledge"!) so that they'll live before you in lifelong reverent and believing obedience on this land you gave our ancestors. ⁴¹And don't forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation. People are going to be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonder-working power, who come to pray at this Temple. Listen from your home in heaven. Honor the prayers of the foreigner so that people all over the world will know who you are and what you're like and will live in reverent obedience before you, just as your own people Israel do; so they'll know that you personally make this Temple that I've built what it is. ⁴⁴When your people go to war against their enemies at the time and place you send them and they pray to God toward the city you chose and this Temple I've built to honor your Name, Listen from heaven to what they pray and ask for, and do what's right for them. When they sin against you—and they certainly will; there's no one without sin!—and in anger you turn them over to the enemy and they are taken captive to the enemy's land, whether far or near, but repent in the country of their captivity and pray with changed hearts in their exile, "We've sinned; we've done wrong; we've been most wicked," and turn back to you heart and soul in the land of the enemy who conquered them, and pray to you toward their homeland, the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you chose, and this Temple I have built to the honor of your Name, Listen from your home in heaven to their prayers desperate and devout and do what is best for them. Forgive your people who have sinned against you; forgive their gross rebellions and move their captors to treat them with compassion. They are, after all, your people and your precious inheritance whom you rescued from the heart of that iron-smelting furnace, Egypt! ⁵²O be alert and attentive to the needy prayers of me, your servant, and your dear people Israel; listen every time they cry out to you! You handpicked them from all the peoples on earth to be your very own people, as you announced through your servant Moses when you, O God , in your masterful rule, delivered our ancestors from Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy people: 1 Kings 8:53, Exodus 32:11, Exodus 32:12, Numbers 14:13-19, Deuteronomy 9:26-29, 2 Chronicles 6:39, Nehemiah 1:10, Isaiah 63:16-18, Isaiah 64:9, Jeremiah 51:19

the furnace: Deuteronomy 4:20, Jeremiah 11:4

Reciprocal: Psalms 28:9 - bless Daniel 9:15 - that hast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they be thy people, and thine inheritance,.... Whom the Lord had chosen above all people, to be a special people to him, and to be his portion and possession; see Deuteronomy 7:6

which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron; hard and cruel bondage in Egypt: Deuteronomy 7:6- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The furnace of iron - Egypt is so called as a place of severe trial and affliction.