1 Kings 8:60
◄  1 Kings 8:60  ►
New International Version (©2011)
so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God and that there is no other.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then people all over the earth will know that the LORD alone is God and there is no other.

English Standard Version (©2001)
that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no one else.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and so that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh is God. There is no other!

International Standard Version (©2012)
so that, in turn, all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God—there is no one else.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then all the nations of the earth will recognize that the LORD is the only genuine God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In this way all the people of the world will know that the LORD is God and there is no other [god].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.

American King James Version
That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.

American Standard Version
that all the peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah, he is God; there is none else.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

Darby Bible Translation
that all peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah is God, that there is none else;

English Revised Version
that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD, he is God; there is none else.

Webster's Bible Translation
That all the people of the earth may know, that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.

World English Bible
that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God. There is none else.

Young's Literal Translation
for all the peoples of the earth knowing that Jehovah, He is God; there is none else;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:54-61 Never was a congregation dismissed with what was more likely to affect them, and to abide with them. What Solomon asks for in this prayer, is still granted in the intercession of Christ, of which his supplication was a type. We shall receive grace sufficient, suitable, and seasonable, in every time of need. No human heart is of itself willing to obey the gospel call to repentance, faith, and newness of life, walking in all the commandments of the Lord, yet Solomon exhorts the people to be perfect. This is the scriptural method, it is our duty to obey the command of the law and the call of the gospel, seeing we have broken the law. When our hearts are inclined thereto, feeling our sinfulness and weakness, we pray for Divine assistance; thus are we made able to serve God through Jesus Christ.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 60. - That an the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else. [See ver. 22. We have here a recurrence to the thought of ver. 43, which was evidently prominent in Solomon's mind. He hopes the house now dedicated will be fraught with blessing for the world, and that the Gentiles will come to its light. Cf. Isaiah 2:2, 3.]

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God,.... By chastising the people of Israel when they sinned; by bearing and answering their prayers when they prayed unto him; by forgiving their sins, and delivering them out of their troubles; by maintaining their cause, and protecting them in the enjoyment of their blessings: and that there is "none else"; no God besides him; all being else fictitious deities, or nominal ones; he only is the one living and true God.

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Solomon's Benediction
…59And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to 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: 60That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. 61Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 4:35 You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other.
Joshua 4:24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God."
1 Samuel 17:46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Kings 8:43 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.
1 Kings 8:59 And may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that he may uphold the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel according to each day's need,
1 Kings 18:39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, "The LORD--he is God! The LORD--he is God!"
2 Kings 19:19 Now, LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, LORD, are God."
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath.