King James Version
1 Kings 8:55 in the King James Version says “And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,”
1 Kings 8:55 · KJV
For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. failed: Heb. fallen
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
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“And he stood”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“and blessed”
H1288to kneel; by implication to bless god (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (god or the king, as
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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