1 Kings 8:49
in 1 Kings 8then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
KJV
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
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This verse in 1 Kings 8
Commentary
4 notes on this verseTheir course - Hebrew. their right, against their invaders and oppressors. For they had forfeited all their rights to God only, but not to their enemies; whom tho' God used as scourges to chastise his peoples sins, yet they had no pretense of right to their land.
This site's exposition
maintain their cause
on 1 Kings 8:49-51
Solomon does not ask that the captivity be shortened but that the captors show compassion, Clarke reading the request as aimed at mercy inside the exile rather than an early end to it. The final ground given is the exodus itself, thy people and thine inheritance, brought out of the furnace of iron, the same phrase Moses used at Deut 4:20 for the ordeal in Egypt. The petition closes the seven-fold list on the same redemption that opened Solomon's whole speech at verse 16, the exodus standing behind every later mercy the prayer asks for.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
He made them to be pitied of those that carried them captive, which, if it did not release them, yet eased their captivity. ( f. ) He pleads their relation to God, and his interest in them: "They are thy people, whom thou hast taken into thy covenant and under thy care and conduct, thy inheritance, from which, more than from any other nation, thy rent and tribute of glory issue and arise (
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Then hear thou their prayers, and their supplication, in heaven thy dwellingplace,.... For their deliverance out of captivity: and maintain their cause; plead it, and do them justice, avenge their injuries, and deliver them.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֤ | veshama'ta | and you will hear | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ | hashamayim | the heavens | H8064 → | 421 times |
| מְכ֣וֹן | mekhon | [the] place | H4349 → | 17 times |
| שִׁבְתְּךָ֔ | shivtekha | dwelling you | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| תְּפִלָּתָ֖ם | tefilatam | prayer their | H8605 → | 72 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם | techinatam | supplication their | H8467 → | 25 times |
| וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ | veasita | and you will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃ | mishpatam | justice their | H4941 → | 422 times |
וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֤and you will hear
veshama'taH8085 →1159 times
הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙the heavens
hashamayimH8064 →421 times
מְכ֣וֹן[the] place
mekhonH4349 →17 times
שִׁבְתְּךָ֔dwelling you
shivtekhaH3427 →1079 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
תְּפִלָּתָ֖םprayer their
tefilatamH8605 →72 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
תְּחִנָּתָ֑םsupplication their
techinatamH8467 →25 times
וְעָשִׂ֖יתָand you will do
veasitaH6213 →2628 times
מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃justice their
mishpatamH4941 →422 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Kings 19:19And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
it leads to
- Psalms 83:18
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
- 1 Kings 8:43
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear…
- Psalms 67:1–2
May God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us, Selah
- 1 Kings 18:36–37
At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in…
- Daniel 4:34–37
But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives…
- Psalms 83:18
Through
1 Kings 8:45then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
it leads to
- Genesis 18:25
Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the…
- Psalms 9:4
For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
- Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the…
- Genesis 18:25
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Kings
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.