1 Kings 8:52

52 Open your eyes to your servant's request and to the request of your people Israel. Hear them whenever they cry out to you.

1 Kings 8:52 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 8:52

That thine eyes may be open to the supplication of thy
servant
That is, attentive to it, meaning himself and his present supplication; or any other he should hereafter put up in this place:

and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in
all that they call unto thee:
at any time, and upon any account; so far as may be agreeable to his will, make for his glory, and their good; see ( Deuteronomy 4:7 ) .

1 Kings 8:52 In-Context

50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you. Forgive all their wrong that they have done against you. See to it that those who captured them show them mercy.

51 These are your people and your inheritance. You brought them out of Egypt, from the iron furnace.

52 Open your eyes to your servant's request and to the request of your people Israel. Hear them whenever they cry out to you.

53 You set them apart from all the earth's peoples as your own inheritance, LORD, just as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.

54 As soon as Solomon finished praying and making these requests to the LORD, he got up from before the LORD's altar, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out to heaven.