And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
- KJV And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
- NKJV And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David my father.
- NASB Now then, God of Israel, let Your words, please, be confirmed, which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.
- NLT Now, O God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David, my father.
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Quick answer
Solomon asks God to confirm the very word He spoke to David. It is a humble appeal to God's own promise.
Overview
Solomon grounds his request not in his merit but in God's prior word to David, asking that it be verified. Prayer here leans wholly on what God has already said. This models faithful petition: we ask God to do what He has promised, a confidence fully warranted by His character revealed in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 2 Sam 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,
- Ps 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
- Ps 119:49Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
- 1 Kgs 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.
- Isa 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.
- Isa 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.
- 1 Sam 1:17“Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”
- Exod 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.
- Jer 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.
- Ezek 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.
- 2 Chr 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.
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Solomon's glory, wisdom, and temple where God's presence dwells are a shadow of the greater Son of David — 'one greater than Solomon is here' — and of the true Temple, Christ himself.
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