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25 “Now therefore, Lord God of Israel, keep your promise that you made[a] to my father, your servant David, when you said, ‘You will not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel,[b] if only your descendants will watch their lives,[c] to live[d] in my presence just as you have lived[e] in my presence.’[f]

26 “Now therefore, God of Israel, may your promise that you made[g] to your servant David my father be fulfilled… 27 and yet, will God truly reside on earth? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:25 Lit. spoke
  2. 1 Kings 8:25 Cf. 1King 2:4; 2Chr 7:18
  3. 1 Kings 8:25 Lit. ways
  4. 1 Kings 8:25 Lit. walk
  5. 1 Kings 8:25 Lit. walked
  6. 1 Kings 8:25 Or have walked before me
  7. 1 Kings 8:26 Lit. spoke