Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
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Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
And now, God of Israel, may your word please be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David, my father.
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Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
And nowe, O God of Israel, I pray thee, let thy worde be verified, which thou spakest vnto thy seruant Dauid my father.
And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David my father
`And now, O God of Israel, let it be established, I pray Thee, Thy word which Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, David my father.
And now, O God of Israel, please let Your word be established which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.
Now then, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father.
And now, God of Israel, may your word please be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David, my father.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy words, I pray thee, be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David my father.
“Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou didst speak to thy servant David my father.
Now, God of Israel, please keep the promise you made to our servant, my father David.
So now, O God of Israel, it is my prayer that you will make your word come true which you said to your servant David, my father.
Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Thy word, I pray Thee, be verified, which Thou didst speak unto Thy servant David my father.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְעַתָּ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יֵאָ֤מֶן נָא֙ דבריך דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבַּ֔רְתָּ לְעַבְדְּךָ֖ דָּוִ֥ד אָבִֽי
Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί νῦν κύριος ὁ θεός ἰσραήλ πιστόω δή ὁ ῥῆμα σύ ὁ δαυίδ ὁ πατήρ ἐγώ
And now, O Lord God of Israel, let, I pray you, your word to David my father be confirmed.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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וּכְעַן אֱלָהָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל יִתְקַיְמוּן כְּעַן פִּתְגָמַיָא דִי מַלֵלְתְּ לְעַבְדָךְ דָוִד אַבָּא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâman (“to confirm”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 8:26 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.