1-Kings - 8:61



61 "Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Kings 8:61.

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Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.
and your heart hath been perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commands, as at this day.'
Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.
Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.'
Also, may our hearts be perfect with the Lord our God, so that we may walk in his decrees, and keep his commandments, as also on this day."

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

As at this day - i. e. "as ye are now doing, in coming with pious intentions to this festival."

Let your heart therefore be perfect - Be sincere in your faith, be irreproachable in your conduct.

Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord your God,.... Sincere in their love to him, united in their worship of him, and constant in their obedience to him:
to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day: as they did that day, neither king nor people having as yet fallen into idolatry, but showing by their then present appearance a zeal for God, his house, and worship.

Let your heart be יי עם שׁלם, wholly, undividedly devoted to the Lord (cf. 1-Kings 11:4; 1-Kings 15:3, 1-Kings 15:14, etc.).

Perfect - Let your obedience be universal, without dividing; upright, without dissembling; and constant, without declining.

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