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1 Kings 8:45

Please listen to their prayers from your home in heaven, and help them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Backsliders;   Blessing;   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 - Choosing/chosen;   Jerusalem;   Name;   Prayer;   Repentance;   Sin;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dedication;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
may you hear their prayer and petition in heavenand uphold their cause.
Hebrew Names Version
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
King James Version
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
English Standard Version
then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
New Century Version
Then hear in heaven their prayers, and do what is right.
New English Translation
then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.
Amplified Bible
then hear in heaven their prayer and their pleading, and maintain their right and defend their cause.
New American Standard Bible
then hear in heaven their prayer and their pleading, and maintain their cause.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare thou then in heauen their prayer & their supplication, and iudge their cause.
Legacy Standard Bible
then listen in heaven to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice.
Contemporary English Version
Answer their prayers from heaven and give them victory.
Complete Jewish Bible
then, in heaven, hear their prayer and plea, and uphold their cause.
Darby Translation
then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.
George Lamsa Translation
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Good News Translation
listen to their prayers. Hear them in heaven and give them victory.
Lexham English Bible
then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them.
Literal Translation
then hear their prayer and their supplication in Heaven, and perform their cause.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
heare thou then their prayer and peticion in heauen, and execute iudgment for them.
American Standard Version
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear in heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare thou in heauen their prayer and supplication, and iudge their cause.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
then hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
King James Version (1611)
Then heare thou in heauen their prayer & their supplication, and mainteine their cause.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then shalt thou hear from heaven their supplication and their prayer, and shalt execute judgment for them.
English Revised Version
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Berean Standard Bible
may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thou schalt here in heuene the preyeris of hem, and the bisechyngis of hem, and thou schalt make the doom of hem.
Young's Literal Translation
then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.
Update Bible Version
then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
World English Bible
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
New King James Version
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
New Living Translation
then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.
New Life Bible
then hear their prayer and their cry in heaven. See that the right thing is done to them.
New Revised Standard
then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then wilt thou hear, in the heavens, their prayer and their supplication, - and maintain their cause?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.
Revised Standard Version
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Contextual Overview

22 Then Solomon stood in front of whole assembly of Israel and faced the Lord 's altar. Solomon spread his hands and looked toward heaven 23 and said, " Lord , God of Israel, there is no other god like you in heaven or on the earth. You keep the agreement that you made with your people. You are kind and loyal to those who follow you with all their heart. 24 You made a promise to your servant, my father David, and you kept that promise. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you made it come true today. 25 Now, Lord , God of Israel, keep the other promises you made to your servant David, my father. You said, ‘David, if your sons carefully obey me as you did, you will always have someone from your family ruling the people of Israel.' 26 Again, God of Israel, I ask you to keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David. 27 "But, God, will you really live here with us on the earth? The whole sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you. Certainly this Temple that I built cannot contain you either. 28 But please listen to my prayer and my request. I am your servant, and you are the Lord my God. Hear this prayer that I am praying to you today. 29 In the past you said, ‘I will be honored there.' So please watch over this Temple, night and day. And please listen to my prayer as I turn toward this Temple and pray to you. 30 And please listen to our prayers in the future when I and your people Israel turn to this place and pray to you. We know that you live in heaven. We ask you to hear our prayer there and forgive us. 31 "Those who wrong others will be brought to this altar. If they are not guilty, they will make an oath and promise that they are innocent.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cause: or, right, Genesis 18:25, Psalms 9:4, Jeremiah 5:28

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:6 - wash 2 Samuel 15:32 - he worshipped 1 Kings 8:49 - cause 1 Chronicles 5:20 - for they cried 2 Chronicles 6:34 - thy people Psalms 20:2 - from Psalms 140:12 - the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,.... 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.


 
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