1 Kings 8:36

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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thou teach: Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:8, Psalms 25:12, Psalms 27:11, Psalms 32:8, Psalms 94:12, Psalms 119:33, Psalms 143:8, Isaiah 35:8, Micah 4:2

the good way: 1 Samuel 12:23, 2 Chronicles 6:26, 2 Chronicles 6:27, Isaiah 30:21, Jeremiah 6:16, Jeremiah 42:3, Matthew 22:16

give rain: 1 Kings 18:1, 1 Kings 18:27-40, 1 Kings 18:45, Psalms 68:9, Jeremiah 14:22, James 5:17, James 5:18

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:30 - and hear 1 Kings 8:39 - Then hear Job 12:15 - Behold Psalms 119:26 - teach Isaiah 48:17 - which teacheth Amos 4:7 - I have Luke 11:4 - forgive us

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel,.... By removing the judgment of drought upon them:

that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk; the way of worship and duty prescribed by the Lord which was good in itself, and good for them, good things being enjoyed by them that walk therein; and this the Lord sometimes teaches by afflictions, as well as by his word; but whenever he does it, it is by his Spirit, and then afflictions are blessings, Psalms 104:19 where the same phrase is differently rendered:

and give rain upon the land which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance; as he did at the prayer of Elijah, James 5:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Teach them ... - Rather, “when thou art teaching them (by thy chastisement) the good way that they should walk in,” i. e. when thou art still teaching, not taking vengeance.