1 Kings 8:60
58 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.
59 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:
That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
61 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.
62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!
- KJV
- That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
- WEB
- that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD himself is God. There is no one else.
- ASV
- that all the peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah, he is God; there is none else.
- DARBY
- that all peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah is God, that there is none else;
- BLB
- that all the peoples of the earth may know that YHWH is God; [there is] no other.
- ÅB
- sa alle jordens folk må kjenne at Herren er Gud, han og ingen annen,
- OTB
- slik at alle jordens folk kan vite at Herren er Gud; det er ingen annen.
- B1930
- sa alle jordens folk må kjenne at Herren er Gud, han og ingen annen,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 4:35
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Read in context1 Kings 18:39
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
Read in contextJeremiah 10:10–12
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Read in context2 Kings 19:19
Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
Read in context1 Samuel 17:46
This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
Read in contextIsaiah 45:22
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:8
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
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