(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
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(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
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For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
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for they are Thy people, and Thine inheritance, which Thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron;
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 8:51 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 4:20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
- Nehemiah 1:10 “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
- Jeremiah 11:4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;
- Exodus 32:11-12 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
- Numbers 14:13-19 Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them. They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’ Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’ Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
- Deuteronomy 9:26-29 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
- Jeremiah 51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
- 1 Kings 8:53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:39 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
- Isaiah 63:16-18 For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance. Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
- Isaiah 64:9 Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 8:51 For they [be] thy people, and thine…
1Ki 8:51 For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
Ver. 51. For they be thy people.] Culled and called out of the rest of the world. Thou hast avouched them for thine; and they have avouched thee for their God.
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From the midst of the furnace of iron.] Where they were grievously afflicted, and by those afflictions melted and made more malleable.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They be thy people; for howsoever they may sin…
They be thy people; for howsoever they may sin against thee, or suffer from men, yet still remember that they are thy peculiar people, and therefore do thou pity, and pardon, and save them.
The furnace of iron; so called, either from the metal melted in it; or rather, from the matter of which it consisted, an iron furnace being more hot and terrible than one of brick or stone. He understands hereby their cruel bondage and painful labours. See Poole "Deu 4:20".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain That thine eyes may be open to the supplication…
That thine eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant,.... That is, attentive to it, meaning himself and his present supplication; or any other he should hereafter put up in this place:
and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call unto thee: at any time, and upon any account; so far as may be agreeable to his will, make for his glory, and their good; see Deu 4:7.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The furnace of iron - Egypt is so called…
The furnace of iron - Egypt is so called as a place of severe trial and affliction.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Iron. This expression is often used to denote the…
CHAPTER VIII.
Iron. This expression is often used to denote the rigour of the Egyptian bondage, Deuteronomy iv. 20. Thus Homer says, that Mars was shut up for thirteen months in a barrel (or prison) of brass. (Iliad E.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 51. Furnace of iron — Metaphorical description of the…
51. Furnace of iron — Metaphorical description of the bitter bondage and inhuman persecutions of Egypt. Compare marginal references.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 51. from the midst of the furnace of iron]…
51. from the midst of the furnace of iron] The bondage of Egypt is so called, Deu_4:20. The idea is of the intense heat needed to melt iron in a furnace, and that with this the suffering of Israel might be compared. Cf. Isa_48:10; Jer_11:14.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (51-53) For they be thy people.—This pleading with God…
(51-53) For they be thy people.—This pleading with God by His deliverance of the people from Egypt, and by His promise to Moses to make them His inheritance (see Exo_19:5; Deu_9:26; Deu_9:29; Deu_14:2), although especially suggested by the last petition for deliverance from captivity, may be held to apply to the whole of Solomon’s prayer. It implies the belief not only that the declared purpose of God cannot fail, but that, even for the manifestation of His glory to man, it must needs be visibly fulfilled before the eyes of the world. This same conviction breathes in many of the utterances of Moses for Israel (see Exo_32:12-13; Num_14:13-14); it is expressed in the “Help us, O Lord, and deliver us for Thy name’s sake,” of Psa_79:9-10, or the “Defer not for Thine own sake, O my God” of Dan_9:19 : it is declared on the part, of the Lord again and again in Eze_20:9; Eze_20:14; Eze_20:22, “I wrought for my name’s sake.” It may, indeed, seem to jar upon our fuller conception of the infinite majesty of God, incapable of being augmented or lessened, and of the infinite love which does all for the sake of His creatures. Yet it is not wholly unlike our Lord’s prayer (Joh_12:28), “Father, glorify thy name,” or the Apostolic declarations of the great purpose of redemption, as designed for “the praise of God’s glory” (Eph_1:6; Eph_1:12; Eph_1:14), and of all Christian life as commanded to “do all to the glory of God” (1Co_10:31). In some respects it is like the pleading with our Lord, in the Litanies of the Church in all ages, by all the various acts of His redemption, and the prayer of the old Latin hymn—
“ Redemisti crucem passus;
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Tantus labor ne sit cassus.”
But, indeed, all that might seem to us strange or unworthy in such prayers vanishes at once, when we consider that the knowledge of God in His self-manifestation is the highest happiness of man; on which, indeed, depend all depth and harmony of human knowledge, and all dignity and purity of human life. Hence, in the Lord’s Prayer, the three petitions “for Gods glory,” preceding all special petitions for our own needs, are really prayers for the highest blessing of all mankind. God’s care for His glory is not for His own sake, but for ours.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For they be thy people a citation or reminiscence…
For they be thy people a citation or reminiscence of Deu_4:10, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt cf. vers. 21, 53. There is a constant recurrence throughout the Old Testament to this great deliverance, and with good reason, for it was the real birthday of the nation, and was also a pledge of future help and favour. God who had "wrought such great things for them in Egypt "could not well forsake them. Solomon"s constant plea is that they are the elect and covenant race from the midst of the furnace of iron i.e., a furnace for iron, heated and fierce as for smelting. Same phrase, Deu_4:20.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 a furnace where iron is forged
a furnace where iron is forged
This can be stated in active form. AT: "a furnace where people forge iron" (See: Active or Passive)
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May your eyes be open
The eye is a synecdoche for the person. AT: "Please pay attention" (See: Synecdoche)
translationWords
Egypt
furnace
servant
people group
Israel
receive
promise
Moses
ancestor
Lord Yahweh
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