Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication
1 Kings 8:26
In 11 translations
- BSB
- And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
- KJV
- And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
- WEB
- “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
- ASV
- Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
- LSV
- And now, O God of Israel, please let Your word be established which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.
- YLT
- 'And now, O God of Israel, let it be established, I pray Thee, Thy word which Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, David my father.
- DBY
- And now, O God of Israel, let thy words, I pray thee, be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David my father.Elohim
- DRC
- And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David my father.
- GNV
- And nowe, O God of Israel, I pray thee, let thy worde be verified, which thou spakest vnto thy seruant Dauid my father.
- JPS
- Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Thy word, I pray Thee, be verified, which Thou didst speak unto Thy servant David my father.
- LXXE
- And now, O Lord God of Israel, let, I pray thee, thy word to David my father be confirmed.
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- Written (Ketiv): דְּבָרֶיךָ (“words your”). Read aloud (Qere): דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔ (“word your”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads דְּבָ֣רְיךָ֔; read aloud (Qere) reads דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔ (“word your”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְעַתָּ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יֵאָ֤מֶן נָא֙ דבריך אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבַּ֔רְתָּ לְעַבְדְּךָ֖ דָּוִ֥ד אָבִֽי׃Read aloud as (qere): דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ νῦν, Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ, πιστωθήτω δὴ τὸ ῥῆμά σου τῷ Δαυὶδ τῷ πατρί μου.
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Cross-references most cited first
- 2 Samuel 7:25–29And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised, so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over…
- Psalms 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
- Psalms 119:49Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
- 1 Kings 8:23and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
- Isaiah 41:17The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- 1 Samuel 1:17“Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”
- Exodus 24:10and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
- Ezekiel 36:36–37Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it. This is what the Lord GOD says:…
- Isaiah 45:3I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.
- 2 Chronicles 1:9Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
- Jeremiah 11:5This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
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