1 Kings 8:30

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,

Bible Verse Review
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when they shall: 2 Chronicles 20:8, 2 Chronicles 20:9, Nehemiah 1:5, Nehemiah 1:6

toward this place: or, in this place

and hear: 1 Kings 8:34, 1 Kings 8:36, 1 Kings 8:39, 1 Kings 8:43, 1 Kings 8:49, 2 Chronicles 6:21, Psalms 33:13, Psalms 33:14, Psalms 113:5, Psalms 113:6, Psalms 123:1, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Isaiah 57:15, Matthew 6:9

forgive: 1 Kings 8:34, 1 Kings 8:36, 1 Kings 8:39, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Psalms 130:3, Psalms 130:4, Daniel 9:19, Matthew 6:12

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:32 - hear thou 1 Kings 8:33 - in 1 Kings 8:35 - confess 1 Kings 8:48 - pray unto 1 Kings 12:27 - go up 2 Kings 20:2 - he turned 2 Chronicles 6:20 - thine eyes 2 Chronicles 30:27 - their prayer Ezra 10:1 - before the house Psalms 5:7 - I worship Psalms 20:6 - he will Psalms 138:2 - toward Isaiah 38:2 - turned Daniel 6:10 - his windows Luke 18:10 - into

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray towards this place,.... Not only he desires his prayers might be heard, but those of the people of Israel, then, and at all times in succeeding ages, whenever they should look towards the temple, and to him that was typified by it; to whose blood, righteousness, sacrifice and mediation, the acceptance of prayers with God is to be ascribed:

and hear thou in heaven thy dwellingplace; for though he condescended to take up his residence in the temple, yet his more proper and more glorious dwelling was in heaven, and from whence, notwithstanding the distance of it, he could hear the prayers of his people, and does:

and when thou hearest, forgive; manifest and apply pardoning grace and mercy on account of sins confessed, and repented of; or remove calamities and distresses on account of sin, which sometimes is meant, and frequently in this prayer, by the forgiveness of sin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And when thou hearest, forgive - literally, “both hear and forgive” - i. e., “hear the prayer, and forgive the sin” which alone causes God to chasten men or to withhold from them His choicest blessings.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. Toward this place — Both tabernacle and temple were types of our Lord Jesus, or of God manifested in the flesh; and he was and is the Mediator between God and man. All prayer, to be acceptable, and to be entitled to a hearing, must go to God through Him. The human nature of Christ is the temple in which dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; therefore with propriety all prayer must be offered to God through Him. "If they pray toward this place, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place; and when thou hearest, forgive." This appears to me to be the true sense and doctrine of this verse.