1 Kings 8:38-39

38 whatever * prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house;

39 then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, ¹whose heart You know, for ²You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,

1 Kings 8:38-39 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 8

This chapter gives an account of the introduction of the ark into the temple, 1Ki 8:1-9 of the glory of the Lord filling it, 1Ki 8:10,11 of a speech Solomon made to the people concerning the building of the temple, and how he came to be engaged in it, 1Ki 8:12-21, of a prayer of his he put up on this occasion, requesting, that what supplications soever were made at any time, or on any account, by Israelites or strangers, might be accepted by the Lord, 1Ki 8:22-53, and of his blessing the people of Israel at the close of it, with some useful exhortations, 1Ki 8:54-61, and of the great number of sacrifices offered up by him, and the feast he made for the people, upon which he dismissed them, 1Ki 8:62-66.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Samuel 2:3; 1 Samuel 16:7
• 2. 1 Chronicles 28:9; Psalms 11:4; Jeremiah 17:10; John 2:24, 25; Acts 1:24

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "who shall know each"
• [b]. Lit "plague"
• [c]. Lit "palms"