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Young's Literal Translation

1 Kings 8:49

`Then Thou hast heard in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained 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;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then heare thou their prayer and supplication in heauen thy dwellyng place, and iudge their cause:
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;
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 And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens, 23 and saith, `Jehovah, God of Israel, there is not a God like Thee, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants, those walking before Thee with all their heart, 24 who hast kept for Thy servant David my father that which Thou spakest to him; yea, Thou speakest with Thy mouth, and with Thy hand hast fulfilled [it], as [at] this day. 25 `And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou spakest to him, saying, There is not cut off to thee a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel -- only, if thy sons watch their way, to walk before Me as thou hast walked before Me. 26 `And now, O God of Israel, let it be established, I pray Thee, Thy word which Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, David my father. 27 But, is it true? -- God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded! 28 `Then thou hast turned unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry and unto the prayer which Thy servant is praying before Thee to-day, 29 for Thine eyes being open towards this house night and day, towards the place of which Thou hast said, My Name is there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant prayeth towards this place. 30 `Then Thou hast hearkened unto the supplication of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, which they pray towards this place; yea, Thou dost hearken in the place of Thy dwelling, in the heavens -- and Thou hast hearkened, and hast forgiven, 31 that which a man sinneth against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up upon him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar 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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