1 Kings 10:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel for ever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Blessed be the Lord your God, Who delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel forever, He made you king to execute justice and righteousness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because Jehovah loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do justice and righteousness.

Common English Bible

⁹ Bless the LORD your God because he was pleased to place you on Israel’s throne. Because the LORD loved Israel with an eternal love, the LORD made you king to uphold justice and righteousness.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Blessed is the Lord your God, whom you have greatly pleased, and who has placed you upon the throne of Israel. For the Lord loves Israel forever, and he has appointed you as king, so that you may accomplish judgment and justice."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath set thee upon the throne of Israel: because the Lord hath loved Israel for ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice.

1 Kings 10:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel has spoken, the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,

2 Samuel 5:12

And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

2 Samuel 8:15

So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and equity to all his people.

1 Kings 3:28

And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered; and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him, to render justice.

1 Kings 5:7

When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed be the Lord this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people.”

1 Chronicles 17:22

And thou didst make thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O Lord, didst become their God.

2 Chronicles 2:11

Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in a letter which he sent to Solomon, “Because the Lord loves his people he has made you king over them.”

Psalm 18:19

He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Psalm 22:8

“He committed his cause to the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”

Psalm 72:2

May he judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice!

Isaiah 42:1

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 62:4

You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My delight is in her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.

Isaiah 9:6

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Jeremiah 31:3

the Lord appeared to him from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Malachi 1:2

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How hast thou loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob

Deuteronomy 7:8

but it is because the Lord loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.