1 Kings 8:41

8:41 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.¹

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival² in the month Ethanim³ (the seventh month).

1 Kings 6:32-33

6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved⁴ cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold.⁵ He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold.⁶ 6:33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars.⁷

Nehemiah 9:5

9:5 The Levites – Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah – said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God!”

“May you be blessed, O LORD our God, from age to age.⁸ May your glorious name⁹ be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.

Psalms 72:19

72:19 His glorious name deserves praise¹⁰ forevermore!

May his majestic splendor¹¹ fill the whole earth!

We agree! We agree!¹²

Psalms 83:18

83:18 Then they will know¹³ that you alone are the Lord,¹⁴

the sovereign king¹⁵ over all the earth.

Psalms 148:13

148:13 Let them praise the name of the Lord,

for his name alone is exalted;

his majesty extends over the earth and sky.

Isaiah 55:5

55:5 Look, you will summon nations¹⁶ you did not previously know;

nations¹⁷ that did not previously know you will run to you,

because of the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel,¹⁸

for he bestows honor on you.

Acts 8:7

8:7 For unclean spirits,¹⁹ crying with loud shrieks, were coming out of many who were possessed,²⁰ and many paralyzed and lame people were healed.

¹tn Heb “your name.” In the OT the word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

²sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

³sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

⁴tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

⁵tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

⁶tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”

⁷tn Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”

⁸tc The MT reads here only “from age to age,” without the preceding words “May you be blessed, O LORD our God” which are included in the present translation. But apparently something has dropped out of the text. This phrase occurs elsewhere in the OT as a description of the Lord (see Ps 41:13; 106:48), and it seems best to understand it here in that light. The LXX adds “And Ezra said” at the beginning of v. 6 as a transition: “And Ezra said, ‘You alone are the LORD.” Without this addition (which is not included by most modern English translations) the speakers of vv. 9:5b-10:1 continue to be the Levites of v. 5a.

⁹tn Heb “the name of your glory.”

¹⁰tn Heb “[be] blessed.”

¹¹tn Or “glory.”

¹²tn Heb “surely and surely” (אָמֵן וְאָמֵן [’amen vÿ’amen], i.e., “Amen and amen”). This is probably a congregational response of agreement to the immediately preceding statement about the propriety of praising God.

¹³tn After the preceding jussives (v. 17), the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose (“so that they may know”) or result.

¹⁴tn Heb “that you, your name [is] the Lord, you alone.”

¹⁵tn Traditionally “the Most High.”

¹⁶tn Heb “a nation,” but the singular is collective here, as the plural verbs in the next line indicate (note that both “know” and “run” are third plural forms).

¹⁷tn Heb “a nation,” but the singular is collective here, as the plural verbs that follow indicate.

¹⁸sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

¹⁹sn The expression unclean spirits refers to evil supernatural spirits which were ceremonially unclean, and which caused the persons possessed by them to be ceremonially unclean.

²⁰tn Grk “For [in the case of] many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out, crying in a loud voice.”