1 Kings 8:43

then shall you hear them from heaven, out of your established dwelling-place, and you shall do according to all that the stranger shall call upon you for, that all the nations may know your name, and fear you, as do your people Israel, and may know that your name has been called on this house which I have builded.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

In Context

42when they shall come and pray toward this place,

44If it be that your people shall go forth to war against their enemies in the way by which you shall turn them, and pray in the name of the Lord + 8:44 Gr. by way of. toward the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built to your name,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 26:15Look down from your holy house, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given them, as you did swear to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.

1 Samuel 17:46this day. And the Lord shall + 17:46 Gr. shut you up. deliver you this day into my hand; and I will kill you, and take away your head from off you, and will give your limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:33then shall you listen out of heaven, out of your prepared dwelling-place, and shall do according to all that the stranger shall call upon you for; that all the nations of the earth may know your name, and that they may fear you, as your people Israel do, and that they may know that your name is called upon this house which I have built.

Psalms 67:2As smoke vanishes, let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire, so let the sinners perish from before God. 1

Psalms 117:1Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. 1

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 8:23-54

Solomon's Prayer. ( b. c. 1003.) 22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: 23 And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand,… Read the whole commentary →

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