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Time after Pentecost · Proper 4 · Year C

1 Kings 8:22-24, 27-29, 41-43

Solomon's Prayer for the Foreigner

June 4, 2028

Solomon Dedicating the Temple outside Jerusalem, Philips Koninck
Solomon Dedicating the Temple outside Jerusalem, Philips Koninck, c. 1664Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University
Koninck, better known for wide Dutch panoramas, sets the dedication under an enormous sky with the crowd spread out below it.Even the heaven of heavens cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built: Solomon's prayer is about scale, and so is the painting.Philips KoninckA Dutch painter of enormous flat panoramas under enormous skies, who ran a ferry business on the side.Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's UniversityA Canadian university gallery in Kingston, Ontario, with a notable group of Dutch and Flemish paintings.Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelLuke 7:1-10Lk 7:1-10
EpistleGal. 1:1-12Gal 1:1-12
Old Testament1 Kings 8:22-24, 27-29, 41-431 Kgs 8:22-24, 27-29, 41-43
PsalterPs. 96:1-9Ps 96:1-9

Overview & Insights

“…that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel…” (1 Kings 8:43)

Solomon stands before the altar and the assembly of Israel at the temple's dedication, praising God's covenant faithfulness. He prays specifically that when a foreigner comes to pray toward this house, God would hear from heaven and answer, so that all peoples of the earth may know God's name.

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Commentary

1 Kings 8 Commentary1 Kgs 8 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's commentary on Solomon's dedication prayer and its reach to the nations.

1 Kings 8 Commentary1 Kgs 8 Commentary Precept Austin

An inductive, verse-by-verse study of the temple's dedication.

1 Kings 8:22 Commentaries1 Kgs 8:22 Commentaries BibleHub

A single page collecting several classic commentaries on this prayer.

1 Kings 8 (Barnes' Notes)1 Kgs 8 (Barnes' Notes) StudyLight

Albert Barnes' verse-by-verse notes on the dedication of Solomon's temple.

Commentary on 1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43Commentary on 1 Kgs 8:22-23, 41-43 Working Preacher

Covers the same dedication prayer under the RCL's slightly shorter verse selection.

Background & Word Study

1 Kings 8:22 Interlinear1 Kgs 8:22 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew interlinear text for checking the prayer's key phrases.

1 Kings 8:22-241 Kgs 8:22-24 Sefaria

The Hebrew text with classic Jewish commentators on the prayer.

Book of Kings Overview BibleProject

An overview video placing Solomon's temple prayer within the larger story of Kings.

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