1 Kings 8:47

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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Yet if they: Leviticus 26:40-45, Deuteronomy 4:29-31, Deuteronomy 30:1, Deuteronomy 30:2, 2 Chronicles 6:37, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, Ezekiel 16:61, Ezekiel 16:63, Ezekiel 18:28, Haggai 1:7, Luke 15:17

bethink themselves: Heb. bring back to their heart

saying: Ezra 9:6, Ezra 9:7, Nehemiah 1:6-11, Nehemiah 9:26-30, Psalms 106:6, Isaiah 64:6-12, Daniel 9:5-11, Zechariah 12:10

done perversely: Job 33:27, Job 33:28, Jeremiah 31:18-20, Luke 15:18

Reciprocal: Exodus 13:17 - the people repent 1 Samuel 7:6 - We have sinned 1 Kings 8:66 - blessed Proverbs 28:13 - whoso Ecclesiastes 7:14 - but Jeremiah 23:20 - in the Jeremiah 29:13 - ye shall Jeremiah 33:3 - Call Lamentations 1:8 - hath Lamentations 1:20 - for Ezekiel 14:6 - Repent Daniel 9:4 - made Hosea 5:15 - till Joel 2:12 - turn Zechariah 1:3 - Turn Zechariah 10:9 - remember Malachi 3:7 - Return unto me Matthew 3:2 - Repent Acts 8:22 - pray 2 Corinthians 7:10 - repentance 1 John 1:9 - we confess 1 John 3:4 - committeth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives,.... Or, "return to their heart" a; remember their sins, the cause of their captivity, and reflect upon them:

and repent of them, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives; though and while they are in such a state:

saying, we have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; which phrases include all their sins, with all the aggravated circumstances of them, and their sense of them, and contrition for them.

a והשיבו אל לבן "et reversi fuerint ad cor suum", Pagninas, Montanus, Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bethink themselves - literally, as in the margin - i. e. “reflect,” “consider seriously.” Compare Deuteronomy 30:1.

Sinned, done perversely, committed wickedness - The words here used seem to have become the standard form of expressing contrition when the time of the captivity arrived and the Israelites were forcibly removed to Babylon (compare the margin reference). The three expressions are thought to form a climax, rising from negative to positive guilt, and from mere wrongful acts to depravation of the moral character.