1 Kings 8:60

That all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord God, he is God, and there is none beside.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.

In Context

59And let these words, + 8:59 Gr. as.which I have prayed before the Lord our God, be + 8:59 Gr. approaching.near to the Lord our God day and night, to maintain the cause of thy servant, and the cause of thy people Israel + 8:59 Gr. a thing or word of a day in a day of a year. But Alex. reads ἡμέρᾳ αὐτοῦ, which agrees with the Heb.for ever.

61And let our hearts be perfect toward the Lord our God, to walk also holily in his ordinances, and to keep his commandments, + 8:61 Gr. as this day is.as at this day.

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Cross References

Exodus 6:7And I will take you to me a people for myself, and will be your God; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the tyranny of the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 4:39And thou shalt know this day, and shalt consider in thine heart, that the Lord thy God he is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he.

1 Samuel 17:46this day. And the Lord shall + 17:46 Gr. shut thee up.deliver thee this day into my hand; and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from off thee, and will give thy limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.

1 Kings 18:39And all the people fell upon their faces, and said, Truly the Lord is God; he is God.

Isaiah 37:20But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that thou art God alone.

Isaiah 44:8Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have ye not heard from the beginning, and have not I told you? ye are witnesses if there is a God beside me.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 8:55-62

Solomon Blesses and Exhorts the People. ( b. c. 1003.) 54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord , he arose from before the altar of the Lord , from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 Blessed be the Lord , that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good… Read the whole commentary →

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