King James Version
1 Kings 8:60 in the King James Version says “That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.”
1 Kings 8:60 · KJV
That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times , as the matter shall require: at all: Heb. the thing of a day in his day
That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“may know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“That all the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“that the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“is God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
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