1 Reyes 8:22-61 NVI

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:29

“ That your eyes may be open towards this house night and day, even towards the place of which you have said, “My name shall be there,” to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray towards this place.” And his prayer was that YHWH would now accept this new Temple as he had accepted the Tabernacle so that YHWH’s eyes would be opened towards this house night and day, causing Him to listen to all the prayers that Solomon His servant would, as Israel’s intercessor, pray towards this... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:30

“ And hearken you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place. Yes, hear you in heaven your dwelling-place, and when you hear, forgive (salach).” He then conjoined Israel with himself and prayed that YHWH would not only hear Solomon’s prayers on behalf of the people, but would also hear their own prayers as well. And he knew that it would be needed, for part of YHWH’s covenant with David had included the idea of his sons going astray... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:51

“ For they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron,” Here the emphasis is not on the land as their inheritance (1 Kings 8:34; 1 Kings 8:36; 1 Kings 8:40) but on the people themselves as His inheritance (Exodus 34:9; Deuteronomy 32:9), the people whom He had brought forth from Egypt (Exodus 20:2; Exodus 32:11; Leviticus 25:42; Leviticus 25:55; Leviticus 26:45; Deuteronomy 9:12; Deuteronomy 9:26; compare 1 Kings 4:20),... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:52

“ 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.” And Solomon’s hope was that because YHWH’s Central Sanctuary had again been established, the prayers of he and YHWH’s people might be more efficacious whenever they cried to Him. ‘That your eyes may be open’ takes up the thought of their being His people and His inheritance. That is why His eyes will be open towards them, not because of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:53

“ 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, O Lord YHWH.” For the reason why YHWH would hear them was not to be because of the Temple, but because He had separated them from all the people of the earth to be His inheritance (Exodus 19:5-6; Exodus 33:16; Leviticus 20:24; Leviticus 20:26 compare Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 14:2; Deuteronomy 32:8). And this was in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:55-62

Solomon’s Closing Blessing Of The People (1 Kings 8:55-62 ). In his first blessing (1 Kings 8:14-21), prior to his major prayer, Solomon had been concerned to establish the credentials of the Temple. Now, however, his concern was for the spiritual life of the people in a blessing which to begin with clearly echoes the last part of the Book of Joshua. Like Joshua he was calling on them once again to renew the covenant (see Joshua 24:0). He consequently called on YHWH not to forsake them but to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:57

“ YHWH our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor 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 judgments, which he commanded our fathers.” Solomon then expressed the heartfelt desire that YHWH would be with them as His people. ‘May YHWH our God be with us as He was with our fathers’. His hope was based on the evidence of YHWH’s faithfulness through history. This idea that YHWH... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:61

“ Let your heart therefore be perfect with YHWH our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.” He then called on the people to make this true by having hearts that were fully dedicated towards God and to His covenant so that they would walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as they were doing at this time. The call was for full obedience to the covenant as expressed in the Law of Moses. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:1-66

1 Kings 8:1-Revelation : . Solomon’ s Dedication of the Temple, Prayer and Address.— This chapter is mainly Deuteronomic, being clearly written from the standpoint of one who has seen the Temple as the one national sanctuary of Israel, and has either witnessed its downfall or perceived that it was imminent. 1 Kings 8:1-: is, however, probably from the early record of how the house of Yahweh was dedicated by Solomon, of which 1 Kings 8:62-Revelation : is the continuation, the prayer of Solomon... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 8:22

Solomon stood upon a scaffold set up for him in the court of the people, 2 Chronicles 6:13. Before the altar of the Lord, with his face towards the altar of burnt-offerings. In the presence of all the congregation of Israel, who stood round about the scaffold, in the same court with him. read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:29

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:30

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:51

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:52

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:53

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:55-62

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:57

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:61

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:1-66

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 8:22

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