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1 Kings 8:61 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.” "

1 Kings 8:61

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59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;

60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD himself is God. There is no one else.

61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.

63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty two thousand head of cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the LORD’s house.

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Deuteronomy 30:16

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"Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”"

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1 Kings 2:3

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"and keep the instruction of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn yourself."

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2 Chronicles 34:31

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"The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book."

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1 Kings 11:4

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"When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was."

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1 Kings 8:1

"Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion."

1 Kings 8:2

"All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month."

1 Kings 8:3

"All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark."

1 Kings 8:4

"They brought up the LORD’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up."

1 Kings 8:5

"King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude."

1 Kings 8:6

"The priests brought in the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings."

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