Now then, God of Israel, let Your words, please, be confirmed, which You have spoken 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.
- BSB And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
- NKJV And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David my father.
- 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 7:25–29Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
- Ps 41:13Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.
- Ps 119:49Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
- 1 Kgs 8:23and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
- Isa 41:17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Isa 45:3I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
- 1 Sam 1:17Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”
- Exod 24:10They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
- Jer 11:5that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today.” Then answered I, and said, “Amen, Yahweh.”
- Ezek 36:36–37Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.
- 2 Chr 1:9Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
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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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