1 Kings 8:60

that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD, He is God; there is none else.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that He maintain the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Israel, as every day shall require;

61Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.'

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Cross References

Exodus 6:7and I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 4:39know this day, and lay it to thy heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.

1 Samuel 17:46This day will the LORD deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel;

1 Kings 18:39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.'

Isaiah 37:20Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou art the LORD, even Thou only.'

Isaiah 44:8Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have I not announced unto thee of old, and declared it? And ye are My witnesses. Is there a God beside Me? Yea, there is no Rock; I know not any.

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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