1 Kings 8:45

45 then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate} them.

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 you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built.

44 If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,

45 then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate} them.

46 "If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,

47 and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,'

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "their judgment"