1 Kings 8:58

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁵⁴Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven. ⁵⁵And he stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying: ⁵⁶"Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses. ⁵⁷May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us or forsake us. ⁵⁸May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.⁵⁹And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires, ⁶⁰so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other! ⁶¹So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

incline: Psalms 110:3, Psalms 119:36, Song of Solomon 1:4, Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26, Ezekiel 36:27, Philippians 2:13, Hebrews 13:21

his commandments: Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:45, Deuteronomy 6:1

Reciprocal: Psalms 119:112 - inclined Psalms 141:4 - Incline not 2 Thessalonians 3:5 - the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That he may incline our hearts unto him,.... By his Spirit, to love, fear, and serve him; to attend to his worship, word, and ordinances:

to walk in all his ways; he has prescribed and directed to:

and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers; all his laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Incline our hearts - This is a doctrine which first appears in Scripture in the Davidical Psalms (see the margin reference and Psalms 141:4). Solomon in this prayer seems to be thoroughly penetrated with his father’s spirit.