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Romanian Cornilescu Translation

1 Regi 8:54

Cînd a isprăvit Solomon de spus Domnului toată rugăciunea aceasta şi cererea aceasta, s'a sculat dinaintea altarului Domnului, unde îngenunchiase, cu mînile întinse spre cer.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Ask;   Christ;   Church;   Dedication;   Family;   Importunity;   Kneeling;   Prayer;   Secret Prayer;   United Prayer;   Unwise Prayers;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dedication;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dedication;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Kneel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gestures;   Israel;   Knee, Kneel;   Prayer;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gestures;   Kneeling;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Attitudes;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adoration, Forms of;   Priest;   Shemini 'Aẓeret;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 27;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when Solomon: Luke 11:1, Luke 22:45

kneeling: 2 Chronicles 6:13, Psalms 95:6, Luke 22:41, Luke 22:45, Acts 20:36, Acts 21:5

with his hands: 1 Kings 8:22, 2 Chronicles 6:12

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 7:1 - when Solomon Ezra 9:5 - spread Isaiah 1:15 - when Daniel 6:10 - he kneeled Ephesians 3:14 - I Ephesians 6:18 - supplication

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord,.... In which he was a type of Christ, praying and interceding for his people before the golden attar, Revelation 8:3,

he arose from before the altar of the Lord; the altar of burnt offering, over against which he was:

from kneeling on his knees; upon the brasen scaffold; see 2 Chronicles 6:13, in which posture he was during this long prayer:

with his hands spread up to heaven; which gesture he had used in his prayer, and now continued in blessing the people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If the prayer of Solomon be, as it has all the appearance of being, a genuine document of the time, preserved in the archives to which the authors of both Kings and Chronicles had access, all theories of the late origin of Deuteronomy must be regarded as baseless. While references are not infrequent to other portions of the Pentateuch, the language of the prayer is mainly modelled upon Deuteronomy, the promises and threats contained in which are continually before the mind of the writer. (See the margin reference).


 
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