1 Kings 8:56
Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest unto his people Israel, in accordance with all that he hath spoken: [so that] there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he spoke by the hand of Moses his servant.
Leeser Tanakh
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In Context
55And he stood up, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
57The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; oh may he not leave us, nor forsake us;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:20Until that the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto his possession which I have given you.
Deuteronomy 12:12And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; because he hath not any portion nor inheritance with you.
Joshua 21:45(21:43) There failed not aught of all the good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel: it all came to pass.
1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, and he did not let fall any one of all his words to the ground.
1 Chronicles 22:9Behold, a son will be born to thee, he it is who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for Solomon [[The Peaceful]] shall be his name, and peace and quietness will I bestow on Israel in his days.
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 →