1 Kings 8:23

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²²Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven, ²³and said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.²⁴You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day. ²⁵Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: 'You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.' ²⁶And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David. ²⁷But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built. ²⁸Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today. ²⁹May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place. ³⁰Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive. ³¹When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

Bible Verse Review
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Lord God: Genesis 33:20, Exodus 3:15

no God: Exodus 15:11, 1 Samuel 2:2, 2 Samuel 7:22, Psalms 35:10, Psalms 86:8, Psalms 89:6-8, Psalms 113:5, Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:25, Jeremiah 10:6, Jeremiah 10:16, Micah 7:18

who keepest: Deuteronomy 7:9, Nehemiah 1:5, Nehemiah 9:32, Psalms 89:3-5, Daniel 9:4, Micah 7:19, Micah 7:20, Luke 1:72

walk before: 1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 3:6, 1 Kings 6:12, Genesis 17:1, 2 Kings 20:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:15 - remember Genesis 24:40 - before 1 Kings 8:26 - And now 2 Kings 19:15 - O Lord God 2 Chronicles 6:14 - O Lord God 2 Chronicles 20:6 - God in heaven Ezekiel 46:2 - he shall worship

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, Lord God of Israel,.... Their covenant God and Father, whereby he was distinguished from all the gods of the Gentiles:

there is no god like thee; in heaven above or on earth beneath; none among the angels in heaven, nor among kings and civil magistrates on earth, who both are sometimes called "Elohim" gods; but only in a figurative sense, and not to be compared with the one only true God, for the perfection of his nature, or the works of his hands:

who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart; performs his promises, by which he both declares his mercy or goodness and his faithfulness to such who walk before him, in his ways, and according to his word, in the sincerity and uprightness of their hearts.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Deuteronomy 7:9.