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1 Kings 8:23

in 1 Kings 8

and 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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and he said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keepest covenant and lovingkindness with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their heart;

KJV

And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

This verse in 1 Kings 8

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 8:21 · Written before 373.

Now notice that Solomon did not only pray for his people but also for the foreigners and the strangers who distrusted the nation of Israel and were often hostile to it, so that the son of David might show the God of David to everyone …

This site's exposition

spread out his hands toward heaven

on 1 Kings 8:22-24

Solomon stands before the altar and “spread out his hands toward heaven”, and 2 Chronicles 6:13 adds he stood on a bronze platform and knelt. His first words, “there is no God like You”, confess before they ask. The phrase “keeping Your covenant of loving devotion” takes up Deuteronomy 7:9.

This site's exposition

there is no God like You

The covenant is kept with servants who walk before God with the whole heart, and verse 24 names David as one. Matthew Henry reads the promise to David as kept by the same faithfulness God shows all His servants. The wholehearted walk returns as a condition in verse 25.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And he said, Lord God of Israel,....

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּאמַ֗רand he said

    vaiyomarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֞הO Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֤י[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אֵין־there not

    ʾein-H369 →789 times

  • כָּמ֣וֹךָlike you

    kamokhaH3644 →143 times

  • אֱלֹהִ֔ים[is] a God

    ʾelohimH430 →2601 times

  • בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִםin the heavens

    bashamayimH8064 →421 times

  • מִמַּ֔עַל<from> above

    mimaalH4605 →140 times

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֖רֶץthe earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • מִתָּ֑חַת<from> beneath

    mitachatH8478 →505 times

  • שֹׁמֵ֤ר[who] keeps

    shomerH8104 →468 times

  • הַבְּרִית֙the covenant

    haberitH1285 →284 times

  • וְֽהַחֶ֔סֶדand <the> covenant loyalty

    vehachesedH2617 →247 times

  • לַעֲבָדֶ֕יךָto servants your

    laavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

  • הַהֹלְכִ֥יםwho walk

    haholekhimH1980 →1546 times

  • לְפָנֶ֖יךָ<to> before you

    lefaneikhaH6440 →2123 times

  • בְּכָל־with all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • לִבָּֽם׃heart their

    libamH3820 →595 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 7:9

    Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 10:23

      Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

    • 2 Timothy 2:13

      if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

    • 2 Thessalonians 3:3

      But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

    • Daniel 9:4

      And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

  • Through

    1 Samuel 2:2

    There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 86:8

      O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 15:11

      Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 22:32

      For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

  • Through

    Nehemiah 1:5

    Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

    it leads to

    • Exodus 20:6

      but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 8:21; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.