1 Kings 8:33

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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smitten down: Leviticus 26:17, Leviticus 26:25, Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 28:48, Joshua 7:8, 2 Chronicles 6:24, 2 Chronicles 6:25, Psalms 44:10

because they have: Joshua 7:11, Joshua 7:12, Judges 6:1, Judges 6:2, 2 Kings 17:7-18, 2 Kings 18:11, 2 Kings 18:12, 2 Chronicles 36:14-17

turn again: Leviticus 26:39-42, Nehemiah 1:8, Nehemiah 1:9, Jonah 3:10

pray: Ezra 9:5-15, Nehemiah 9:1-3, Nehemiah 9:4, Nehemiah 9:5, Isaiah 63:15-19, Isaiah 64:1 - Isaiah 66:24, Daniel 9:3-19

in: or, toward, 1 Kings 8:30

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:40 - confess 1 Kings 8:35 - if they pray 2 Chronicles 20:9 - when evil Nehemiah 9:28 - heardest Jeremiah 18:8 - that nation Jeremiah 36:7 - It may

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When thy people Israel shall be smitten down before the enemy,.... Beaten and routed, many slain, and others carried captive; which had been their case, and might be again, and was, though now a time of peace:

because they have sinned against thee; which always was the reason of their being given up into the hands of their enemies:

and shall turn again to thee; to thy worship, as the Targum, having fallen into idolatry, which was generally the case when they fell before their enemies:

and confess thy name; own him to be the true God, acknowledge his justice in their punishment, confess their sin, repent of it, and give him glory:

and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house; not the captives, unless it should be rendered, as it may, "toward this house" f; but those that escaped, or their brethren that went not out to battle, who should pray for them here.

f So Pool and Patrick.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. When thy people Israel be smitten down, c. — The SECOND case. When their enemies make inroads upon them, and defeat them in battle, and lead them into captivity, because God, being displeased with their transgressions, has delivered them up then if they shall turn again, confess the name of God, which they had in effect denied, by either neglecting his worship, or becoming idolatrous; and pray and make supplication; then, says Solomon, hear thou in heaven-and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.