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:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Give us day by day our daily bread.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 54-61)Solomon, after his sermon in Ecclesiastes, gives us the conclusion of the whole matter; so he does here, after this long prayer; it is called his blessing the people , 1 Kgs. 8:55. He pronounced it standing, that he might be the better heard, and because he blessed as one having authority. Never were words more fitly spoken, nor more pertinently. Never was congregation dismissed with that which wa…
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