“Blessed be the LORD in the present day, who has given to David a smart son to be over this nice individuals.”
The prayer-blessing is a typical blessing, pronounced upon God, with the explanation for it given after (as a result of He has given a smart son of David to be king over Israel). It’s fairly transient, as are many blessings.
Blessing God may be one thing we don’t usually observe, focusing extra on praising or thanking him. But there are various situations of individuals “blessing God” of their prayers. It’s akin to praising Him, however focuses extra on exalting him, with, maybe, the concept that all individuals and all creation will achieve this. “I exalt you, God, might others additionally reward and exalt you.”
We may be greatly surprised by a overseas king providing a blessing to God, however in that tradition, it’s no shock. The general public of the traditional world had been polytheists who additionally believed that every metropolis or nation-state had their very own gods who watched over them. Hiram would have worshiped his personal Tyrian and Phoenician gods, however understood that Israel had their very own God, although he wouldn’t have understood that God to have any energy over him as king of Tyre. (Recall the Egyptians, within the Exodus story, noticed the wrestle with Moses and Aaron as a battle between Yahweh and the Egyptian gods).
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