1st Kings Chapter 8 verse 40 Holy Bible

ASV 1stKings 8:40

that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
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BBE 1stKings 8:40

So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.
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DARBY 1stKings 8:40

that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
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KJV 1stKings 8:40

That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
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WBT 1stKings 8:40

That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.
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WEB 1stKings 8:40

that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
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YLT 1stKings 8:40

so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 40. - That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. [Solomon anticipates that a godly fear will be the result of forgiveness and restoration. We find the same thought in Psalm 130:4. The mercy and goodness of God should lead to repentance, but unhappily it not unseldom fails to do so.] The fifth petition contemplates the prayers which foreigners, attracted by the fame of Jerusalem, of its religion and sanctuary could offer towards the house. The Gentiles who should visit Jerusalem would assuredly, with their polytheistic ideas and their belief in local or tribal deities, invoke the aid and blessing of the mighty God of Jacob. This mention of aliens from the commonwealth of Israel in the prayer of dedication, especially when viewed in the light of the exclusiveness and bigotry which characterized the Jews of later days, is especially to be noticed. As Rawlinson (in loco) observes, "Nothing is more remarkable in the Mosaic law than its liberality with regard to strangers." He then quotes Exodus 22:21; Leviticus 25:35; Deuteronomy 10:19; Deuteronomy 31:12; Numbers 15:14-16; and adds: "It is quite in the spirit of these enactments that Solomon, having first prayed God on behalf of his fellow countrymen, should next go on to intercede for the strangers," etc. The intercourse of the Hebrews at this period with foreign nations, and the influence they exercised on the Jewish thought and manners (see Stanley, "Jewish Ch." 2. Leer. 26.), are also to be remembered. These new relations with the stranger would no doubt have widened Solomon's views.

Ellicott's Commentary