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52 (A)that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your slave and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. 53 For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, (B)as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your [a]servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord Yahweh.”

Solomon Blesses Yahweh

54 (C)Now it happened that when Solomon had [b]finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to Yahweh, (D)he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his [c]hands spread toward heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:53 Or slave, cf. 8:52; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  2. 1 Kings 8:54 Or completed, cf. 9:1; 2 Chr 7:11; 8:16
  3. 1 Kings 8:54 Lit palms

52 “May your eyes be open(A) to your servant’s plea and to the plea of your people Israel, and may you listen to them whenever they cry out to you.(B) 53 For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance,(C) just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

54 When Solomon had finished all these prayers and supplications to the Lord, he rose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.

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