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Bishop's Bible

1 Kings 8:49

Then heare thou their prayer and supplication in heauen thy dwellyng place, and iudge their cause:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Backsliders;   Blessing;   Heaven;   Intercession;   Repentance;   Sin;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ask;   Christ;   Church;   Dedication;   Family;   Importunity;   Prayer;   Secret Prayer;   Solomon;   United Prayer;   Unwise Prayers;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Repentance;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dedication;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dedication;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   God, Name of;   Hear, Hearing;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dwelling;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Prayer;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Daniel the Prophet;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Theology;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,their prayer and petition and uphold their cause.
Hebrew Names Version
then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
King James Version
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
English Standard Version
then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
New Century Version
Then hear their prayers from your home in heaven, and do what is right.
New English Translation
then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help and vindicate them.
Amplified Bible
then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their right and defend their cause,
New American Standard Bible
then hear their prayer and their pleading in heaven, Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then heare thou their prayer and their supplication in heauen thy dwelling place, and iudge their cause,
Legacy Standard Bible
then listen in heaven Your dwelling place to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice for them,
Complete Jewish Bible
then, in heaven where you live, hear their prayer and plea, uphold their cause,
Darby Translation
then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right;
Easy-to-Read Version
Please listen to their prayers from your home in heaven, and do what is right.
George Lamsa Translation
Then hear thou in heaven, thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,
Good News Translation
then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them.
Lexham English Bible
then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them.
Literal Translation
then You shall hear their prayer and their supplication in Heaven Your dwellingplace, and shall perform their cause,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then heare thou their prayer and supplicacion in heauen, from the seate of thy dwellynge, and execute iudgment for them,
American Standard Version
then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
Bible in Basic English
Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
King James Version (1611)
Then heare thou their prayer and their supplication in heauen thy dwelling place, and mainteine their cause,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then shalt thou hear from heaven thine established dwelling-place,
English Revised Version
then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
Berean Standard Bible
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in the firmament of thi seete, the preiers of hem, and the bisechingis of hem, and thou shalt make the doom of hem;
Young's Literal Translation
`Then Thou hast heard in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause,
Update Bible Version
then you shall hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
Webster's Bible Translation
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause,
World English Bible
then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
New King James Version
then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,
New Living Translation
then hear their prayers and their petition from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause.
New Life Bible
then hear their prayer in heaven where You are. See that the right thing is done to them.
New Revised Standard
then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, maintain their cause
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then wilt thou hearken in the heavens, the settled place of thine abode, unto their prayer, and unto their supplication, - and maintain their cause;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:
Revised Standard Version
then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause
New American Standard Bible (1995)
then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

Contextual Overview

22 Solomon stoode before the aulter of the Lorde in the sight of all the congregation of Israel, and stretched out his handes toward heauen, and sayde: 23 Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heauen aboue, or in the earth beneath, thou that kepest couenaunt & mercy for thy seruauntes that walke before thee with all their heart. 24 Thou that hast kept with thy seruaut Dauid my father that thou promisedst him: Thou spakest also with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thyne hand, as it is come to passe this day. 25 Therfore now Lorde God of Israel, keepe with thy seruaunt Dauid my father that thou promisedst him, saying, Thou shalt not be without a man in my sight to syt on the seate of Israel: so that thy childre take heede to their way, that they walke before me, as thou hast walked in my sight. 26 And now O God of Israel, let thy word be verified which thou spakest vnto thy seruaunt Dauid my father. 27 Wyll God in deede dwell on the earth? Beholde, the heauens and heauens of all heauens are not able to contayne thee: and how should then this house do it that I haue builded? 28 Haue thou therefore respect vnto the prayer of thy seruaunt, and to his supplication O Lorde my God, to heare the crye and prayer which thy seruaunt prayeth before thee this day: 29 That thyne eyes may be open toward this house nyght and day, euen toward this place, of which thou haste said, My name shal be there: That thou mayst hearken vnto the prayer which thy seruaunt prayeth in this place, 30 And regarde thou the supplication of thy seruaunt and of thy people Israel when they pray in this place: and heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and when thou hearest haue mercy. 31 If any man trespasse against his neyghbour, & there go an oth betweene them, and the one compel the other, and come, swearing before thyne aulter in this house:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then hear: 1 Kings 8:30

cause: or, right, 1 Kings 8:45, 2 Kings 19:19, Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 1:16

Reciprocal: Psalms 140:12 - the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then hear thou their prayers, and their supplication, in heaven thy dwellingplace,.... For their deliverance out of captivity: and maintain their cause; plead it, and do them justice, avenge their injuries, and deliver them.


 
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