1 Kings 8:45

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

1 Kings 8:45 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 8:45

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,
&c.] For success:

and maintain their cause;
do them justice, and avenge their injuries, as the Targum; let it appear that their cause is right, by giving them victory.

1 Kings 8:45 In-Context

43 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear 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 toward 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--for 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 to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

47 yet if 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, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,'