Font Size
1 Kings 8:52-54
New American Standard Bible
1 Kings 8:52-54
New American Standard Bible
52 (A)so that Your eyes may be open to the pleading of Your servant and to the pleading of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. 53 For You have singled them out from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, (B)just as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord [a]God.”
Solomon’s Benediction
54 (C)When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and plea to the Lord, (D)he stood up from the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his [b]hands spread toward heaven.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Kings 8:53 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
- 1 Kings 8:54 Lit palms
1 Kings 8:52-54
New International Version
1 Kings 8:52-54
New International Version
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.
New American Standard Bible (NASB) 
New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.