1 Kings 8:23

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1 Kings 8:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

23 and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

24 You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.

25 Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’

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Genesis 33:20

There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Exodus 3:15

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

Exodus 15:11

Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

1 Samuel 2:2

There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.

2 Samuel 7:22

How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.

Psalms 35:10

All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

Psalms 86:8

O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.

Psalms 89:6

For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

Psalms 89:7

In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.

Psalms 89:8

O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.

Psalms 113:5

Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?

Isaiah 40:18

To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

Isaiah 40:25

“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

Jeremiah 10:6

There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

Jeremiah 10:16

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Nehemiah 1:5

Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

Nehemiah 9:32

So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

Psalms 89:3

You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

Psalms 89:4

‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah

Psalms 89:5

The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the holy ones.

Daniel 9:4

And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Micah 7:20

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Luke 1:72

to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

1 Kings 2:4

and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 3:6

Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

1 Kings 6:12

“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

2 Kings 20:3

“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.