📖WEB · 1 Kings 8:55
What does 1 Kings 8:55 mean?
"He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,"
— 1 Kings 8:55 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”
It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;
that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
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