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1 Kings 8:25-27
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25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel,[a] provided that your descendants watch their step[b] and serve me as you have done.’[c] 26 Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made[d] to your servant, my father David, be realized.[e]

27 “God does not really live on the earth![f] Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:25 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
  2. 1 Kings 8:25 tn Heb “watch their way.” The Hebrew and English colloquialisms are similar. The related ideas “way” and “steps” represent behavior in a broad sense in each language.
  3. 1 Kings 8:25 tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”
  4. 1 Kings 8:26 tn Heb “the words that you spoke.”
  5. 1 Kings 8:26 tn Or “prove to be reliable.”
  6. 1 Kings 8:27 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.
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