1 Kings 8:38   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel-being aware of the afflictions of their own hearts, and spreading out their hands toward this temple-

1 Kings 8:39   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know every human heart),

1 Kings 8:40   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

so that they will fear you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.

1 Kings 8:41   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name-

1 Kings 8:42   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

for they will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm-when they come and pray toward this temple,

1 Kings 8:43   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.

1 Kings 8:44   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to the Lord toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,

1 Kings 8:46   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"When they sin against you-for there is no one who does not sin-and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to their own lands, far away or near;

1 Kings 8:47   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors and say, 'We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly';

1 Kings 8:48   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name;

1 Kings 8:49   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.

1 Kings 8:50   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

And forgive your people, who have sinned against you; forgive all the offenses they have committed against you, and cause their captors to show them mercy;

1 Kings 8:51   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, out of that iron-smelting furnace.

1 Kings 8:52   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

"May your eyes be open to your servant's plea and to the plea of your people Israel, and may you listen to them whenever they cry out to you.

1 Kings 8:53   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt."

1 Kings 8:61   (Read all of 1 Kings 8)

And may your hearts be fully committed to the Lord our God, to live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time."

1 Kings 9:3   (Read all of 1 Kings 9)

The Lord said to him: "I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

1 Kings 9:4   (Read all of 1 Kings 9)

"As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,

1 Kings 9:5   (Read all of 1 Kings 9)

I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

1 Kings 9:6   (Read all of 1 Kings 9)

"But if you or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,

1 Kings 9:13   (Read all of 1 Kings 9)

"What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?" he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day.

1 Kings 10:6   (Read all of 1 Kings 10)

She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.

1 Kings 10:7   (Read all of 1 Kings 10)

But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard.

1 Kings 10:8   (Read all of 1 Kings 10)

How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!