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1 Kings 8:40 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 8 · verse 40
That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.1 Kings 8:40 · King James Version
1 Kings 8:40 in context
38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
40That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
41Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;
42(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- gavestnâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- fearyârêʼto fearH3372 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
- livechayaliveH2416 →
- landʼădâmâhsoilH127 →
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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