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1 Kings 8:61 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 8 · verse 61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.1 Kings 8:61 · King James Version
1 Kings 8:61 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 at all times, as the matter shall require:
60That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
61Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
63And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- commandmentsmitsvâha command, whether human or divineH4687 →
- statuteschôqan enactmentH2706 →
- perfectshâlêmcompleteH8003 →
- heartlêbâbthe heartH3824 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- walkyâlakto walkH3212 →
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Solomon, after his sermon in Ecclesiastes, gives us the conclusion of the whole matter; so he does here, after this long prayer; it is called his blessing the people, Kg1 8:55. He pronounced it standing, that he might be the better heard, and because he blessed as one having authority.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 54-61