1 Kings 8:47

47 ¹if they take thought in the land where * they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, '²We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly ';

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1 Kings 8:47 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 8:47

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they
were carried captives
Or, "return to their heart" ^F1; remember their sins, the cause of their captivity, and reflect upon them:

and repent of them, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them
that carried them captives;
though and while they are in such a state:

saying, we have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed
wickedness;
which phrases include all their sins, with all the aggravated circumstances of them, and their sense of them, and contrition for them.

FOOTNOTES:

F1 (Nbl la wbyvhw) "et reversi fuerint ad cor suum", Pagninas, Montanus, Vatablus.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Kings 8:47 In-Context

45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

46 "When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin ) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

47 if they take thought in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly ';

48 if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;

49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

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1. Leviticus 26:40-42; Nehemiah 9:2
2. Ezra 9:6, 7; Nehemiah 1:6; Psalms 106:6; Daniel 9:5

Footnotes 1

[a]. Lit "return to their heart"

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