1 Kings 8:53 “For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the e…”

1 Kings 8:53

For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD.”

American Standard Version

For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

For thou diddest separate them to thee from among all people of the earth for an inheritance, as thou saidest by the hand of Moses thy seruant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

Darby Translation

For thou hast separated them from among all peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spokest through Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

for Thou hast separated them to Thyself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, in Thy bringing out our fathers from Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.'

Bible in Basic English

For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

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Cross references

“separate”

Deuteronomy 14:2 Deuteronomy 32:9 Exodus 33:16 Numbers 23:9 Deuteronomy 4:34 Deuteronomy 7:6–8

Deuteronomy 14:2 · BSB

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:9 · BSB

But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

Exodus 33:16 · BSB

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

Numbers 23:9 · BSB

For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.

Deuteronomy 4:34 · BSB

Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before…

Deuteronomy 7:6–8 · BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

“thine inheritance”

Jeremiah 10:16 Ephesians 1:18

Jeremiah 10:16 · BSB

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.

Ephesians 1:18 · BSB

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

“as thou”

Deuteronomy 33:1–3 Deuteronomy 33:26–29

Deuteronomy 33:1–3 · BSB

This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

Deuteronomy 33:26–29 · BSB

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

52May Your eyes be open to the pleas of Your servant and of Your people Israel, and may You listen to them whenever they call to You.

54Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.

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