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1 Kings 8:58–59
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1 Kings 8:58
58That 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.
58That hee may encline our hearts vnto him, to walke in all his wayes, and to keepe his Commaundements, and his Statutes, and his Iudgements which hee commaunded our fathers.
1 Kings 8:59
59And 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:
59And let these my wordes wherewith I haue made supplication before the LORD, be nigh vnto the LORD our God, day and night, that hee maintaine the cause of his seruant, and the cause of his people Israel †at all times, as the matter shall require:
- Heb. the thing of a day in his day.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Kings 8:58
Lean unto, or towards.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
commandments
Authoritative commands, laws, or precepts; especially commands given by God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ordered; directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
1 Kings 8:59
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In, at, or to what place; in the place or circumstance in which.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
supplication
An earnest request or prayer.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Near in place, time, or circumstance; almost.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To preserve, support, uphold, provide for, or continue.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
A subject, affair, cause, or thing under consideration; also material substance, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
To ask, demand, call for, or hold someone accountable for what is due.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
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From verse 58
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Open the full verse study36Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
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Open the full verse study26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
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Open the full verse study33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Open the full verse study13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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Open the full verse study21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Open the full verse study1NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
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Open the full verse study45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
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Open the full verse study1NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
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Open the full verse study4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
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Open the full verse study3Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
From verse 59
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Open the full verse study9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
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Open the full verse study2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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Open the full verse study2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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Open the full verse study25Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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Open the full verse study20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
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Open the full verse study3Give us day by day our daily bread.
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Open the full verse study1HEAR my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
2Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
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