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26 So now, O God of Israel, let Your word truly [a]endure (A)which You have spoken to Your [b]servant, my father David.

27 “But will God truly dwell on the earth? Behold, (B)heaven and the [c]highest heaven cannot [d]contain You; how much less this house which I have built! 28 Yet have regard to the (C)prayer of Your slave and to his supplication, O Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your slave prays before You today;

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:26 Or be true
  2. 1 Kings 8:26 Or slave, cf. 8:23; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  3. 1 Kings 8:27 Lit heaven of heavens
  4. 1 Kings 8:27 Or uphold; lit sustain