1 Kings 8:39

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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Then hear: 1 Kings 8:32, 1 Kings 8:36

give to every man: Psalms 18:20-26, Psalms 28:4, Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 32:19, Ezekiel 18:30, Revelation 22:12

for thou: 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 6:30, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 11:5, John 2:25, John 21:17, Acts 1:24, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:22 - he knoweth 1 Samuel 2:3 - a God 1 Kings 8:30 - and hear 2 Chronicles 30:27 - their prayer Nehemiah 9:28 - heardest Job 9:15 - I would Psalms 102:19 - For he Psalms 130:4 - that thou mayest Psalms 139:1 - thou hast Jonah 2:4 - toward Matthew 6:12 - forgive Acts 15:8 - which 2 Corinthians 5:10 - receive 1 Thessalonians 2:4 - but God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then hear thou in heaven thy dwellingplace,.... Which was more properly so than this Solomon had built, and the Lord had taken possession of:

and forgive; remove the calamity and distress, be it what it may:

and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest: that his prayer is cordial and sincere, his confession and repentance genuine, and that he is truly sensible of his sin, and sorry for it, and is pure in his intentions and resolutions, through divine grace, to depart from it for the future:

(for thou, [even] thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) he knows all men, the hearts of them all, what is in them, what comes out of them, and is according to them; omniscience belongs only to God; it is his prerogative to know the heart and search the reins, see Jeremiah 17:9.