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1 Kings 8:53-55
Legacy Standard Bible
1 Kings 8:53-55
Legacy Standard Bible
53 For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, (A)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 (B)Now it happened that when Solomon had [b]finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to Yahweh, (C)he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his [c]hands spread toward heaven. 55 And he stood and (D)blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:
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- 1 Kings 8:53 Or slave, cf. 8:52; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
- 1 Kings 8:54 Or completed, cf. 9:1; 2 Chr 7:11; 8:16
- 1 Kings 8:54 Lit palms
1 Kings 8:53-55
New International Version
1 Kings 8:53-55
New International Version
53 For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance,(A) 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. 55 He stood and blessed(B) the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying:
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