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1 Kings 8:39-49

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39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ( 1for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
40 that they may fear you 2all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.
41 “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name’s sake
42 (for they shall hear of your great name 3and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,
43 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order 4that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and 5fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
44 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord 6toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
46 “If they sin against you— 7for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive 8to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
47 yet 9if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, 10‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly, ’
48 11if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you 12toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,
49 then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
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1 Kings 8:39-49 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 8

This chapter gives an account of the introduction of the ark into the temple, 1Ki 8:1-9 of the glory of the Lord filling it, 1Ki 8:10,11 of a speech Solomon made to the people concerning the building of the temple, and how he came to be engaged in it, 1Ki 8:12-21, of a prayer of his he put up on this occasion, requesting, that what supplications soever were made at any time, or on any account, by Israelites or strangers, might be accepted by the Lord, 1Ki 8:22-53, and of his blessing the people of Israel at the close of it, with some useful exhortations, 1Ki 8:54-61, and of the great number of sacrifices offered up by him, and the feast he made for the people, upon which he dismissed them, 1Ki 8:62-66.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 12

  • 1. 8:39 1 Chr. 28:9; Acts 1:24; [1 Sam. 16:7; Jer. 17:10]
  • 2. 8:40 Deut. 12:1
  • 3. 8:42 Deut. 3:24; 2 Chr. 6:32
  • 4. 8:43 ver. 60; [Josh. 4:24]
  • 5. 8:43 Ps. 102:15
  • 6. 8:44 [ver. 48]
  • 7. 8:46 Prov. 20:9; Eccles. 7:20; Rom. 3:23; James 3:2; 1 John 1:8, 10
  • 8. 8:46 Lev. 26:34, 44; Deut. 28:36, 64
  • 9. 8:47 Lev. 26:40
  • 10. 8:47 Neh. 1:6; Ps. 106:6; Dan. 9:5
  • 11. 8:48 1 Sam. 7:3; Jer. 29:12-14
  • 12. 8:48 Dan. 6:10; [ver. 44; Ps. 5:7; Jonah 2:4]
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025

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