1 Kings 8:32

32 listen from heaven and act accordingly: Judge your servants, making the offender pay for his offense and setting the offended free of any charges.

1 Kings 8:32 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 8:32

Then hear thou in heaven
When the injured person makes supplication to have justice done him:

and do, and judge thy servants;
contending with one another, the one affirming, the other denying

condemning the wicked, by bringing his way upon his head:
inflicting upon him the punishment imprecated by him in his oath:

and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness;
by making it appear that his cause is just.

1 Kings 8:32 In-Context

30 and listen to the prayers that I pray at this place. Listen from your home in heaven and when you hear, forgive.

31 When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple,

32 listen from heaven and act accordingly: Judge your servants, making the offender pay for his offense and setting the offended free of any charges.

33 When your people Israel are beaten by an enemy because they've sinned against you, but then turn to you and acknowledge your rule in prayers desperate and devout in this Temple,

34 Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, return them to the land you gave their ancestors.