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1 Kings 8:49
1 Kings 8:49 is verse 49 of 1 Kings chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
King James Version
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
World English Bible
then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
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1 Kings 8:47–51 · Berean Standard Bible
47 and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
48 and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
49 then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
50 May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.
51 For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 8:45then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
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.”
Zechariah 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
Zechariah 1:16Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’