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In 1 Chronicles, David blesses God as great, mighty, and majestic, the ruler of all. In 1 Esdras, Zerubbabel ends his speech on truth with a similar blessing, giving her the strength, kingship, power, and majesty before blessing the God of truth.
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1000+ CE
1 Chronicles 29:11
Hebrew Bible
10 David praised the Lord before the entire assembly: “O Lord God of our father Israel, you deserve praise forevermore! 11 O Lord, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign over all the sky and earth! You, Lord, have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler of all. 12 You are the source of wealth and honor; you rule over all. You possess strength and might to magnify and give strength to all.
1 Esdras 4:40
Esdras A, 3 Esdras
Deuterocanon
38 But truth endures and is strong for ever, and lives and prevails for ever and ever. 39 With her there is no partiality or preference, but she does what is righteous instead of anything that is unrighteous or wicked. All men approve her deeds, 40 and there is nothing unrighteous in her judgment. To her belongs the strength and the kingship and the power and the majesty of all the ages. Blessed be the God of truth!” 41 He ceased speaking; then all the people shouted, and said, “Great is truth, and strongest of all!”
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Notes and References
“... 4:39–40. there is no partiality The speech ends with an apotheosis of truth in two stages. First is her justice in judgment, acknowledged and valued by everyone. [...] Then comes a general apotheosis of her strength, dominion, authority, and eternity, an apparent epitome of David’s blessing of God in 1 Chron. 29:10–13: “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel, forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, are the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all” (NRSV). The fourth speech ends with an exclamation that at last discloses the figure intended all along and identified by the attribute of truth—“Blessed be the God of truth!” This attribute is based on Chronicles, in the designation of God as “the God of truth” (2 Chron. 15:3, rendered “the true God” by English translations). ...”
Japhet, Sara
"1 Esdras" in Feldman, Louis H.; Kugel, James L.; Schiffman, Lawrence H. (ed.) Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture
(p. 171) Jewish Publication Society, 2013
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