1 Kings 8:21

8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors ¹  when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 8:53

8:53 After all, ²  you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, ³  just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

1 Kings 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer, ⁴  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors ⁵  out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ⁶  That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

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¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).

² tn Or “For.”

³ tn Heb “your inheritance.”

⁴ tn Heb “and they will say.”

⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁶ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”