1 Kings 8:29

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²²Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven, ²³and said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. ²⁴You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day. ²⁵Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: 'You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.' ²⁶And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David. ²⁷But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built. ²⁸Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today. ²⁹May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.³⁰Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive. ³¹When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

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That thine: 1 Kings 8:52, 2 Kings 19:16, 2 Chronicles 6:20, 2 Chronicles 6:40, 2 Chronicles 7:15, 2 Chronicles 16:9, Nehemiah 1:6, Psalms 34:15, Daniel 9:18

My name: 1 Kings 8:16, 1 Kings 8:43, *marg. 1 Kings 11:36, Exodus 20:24, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 16:2, Deuteronomy 16:6, Deuteronomy 26:2, 2 Kings 21:4, 2 Kings 21:7, 2 Kings 23:27, 2 Chronicles 6:5, 2 Chronicles 6:6, 2 Chronicles 6:20, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 20:8, 2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:7, Nehemiah 1:9, John 14:13, John 14:14

toward this place: or, in this place, Daniel 6:10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:5 - But unto 1 Kings 8:35 - confess 1 Kings 8:48 - pray unto 1 Kings 9:3 - to put 1 Kings 12:27 - go up 1 Chronicles 22:7 - unto the name Psalms 5:7 - I worship Psalms 138:2 - toward Ezekiel 8:16 - with their Ezekiel 23:4 - Aholibah Zechariah 12:4 - I will open

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That thine eyes may be open towards this house night and day,.... That is, to the people that pray in it, as they are to his righteous ones, Psalms 33:14 even towards the place of which thou hast my name shall be there; there should be some displays of his presence, power, and providence, of goodness, grace, and mercy:

that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make towards this place; not only to what he should make in it, but to what he should make in his own house, with his face directed towards this, as would be, and was the practice of good people in later times, yea, even when the temple lay in ruins; see Daniel 6:10 figuring the respect gracious souls have to Christ by faith in their prayers, in whom the Godhead dwells bodily, see Jonah 2:4 and it is observable, according to a Jewish canon b, one at a distance, in another land, was not only to turn his face to the land of Israel, but direct his heart to Jerusalem, and the temple, and the holy of holies; and if in the land, to Jerusalem, c. and if in Jerusalem, not only to the temple, and holy of holies, but if behind the mercy seat, he was to turn his face to it which was a symbol of Christ, the propitiatory and throne of grace, to be looked unto by faith, Romans 3:25.

b Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 94. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The choice of Jerusalem as the place seems to have been made by special revelation to David. See Psalms 78:68; Psalms 132:13; and compare 1 Chronicles 22:1.

Toward this place - Better (here and in 1 Kings 8:30) than the marginal “in.” Wherever they were, the Jews always worshipped toward the temple. (See margin reference.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. My name shall be there — I will there show forth my power and my glory by enlightening, quickening, pardoning, sanctifying, and saving all my sincere worshippers.