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1 Kings 8:57

“May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us;”

Verse in context — 1 Kings 8

55

He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

56

Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

57

May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us;

58

that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

59

Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;

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