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1 Kings 8:26 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 8 · verse 26
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.1 Kings 8:26 · King James Version
1 Kings 8:26 in context
24Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
25Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
26And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
28Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- verifiedʼâmanproperly, to build up or supportH539 →
- spakestdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- servantʻebeda servantH5650 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- DavidDâvidDavid, the youngest son of JesseH1732 →
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Solomon having made a general surrender of this house to God, which God had signified his acceptance of by taking possession, next follows Solomon's prayer, in which he makes a more particular declaration of the uses of that surrender, with all humility and reverence, desiring that God would agree thereto.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-53