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1 Kings 8:38 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 8 · verse 38
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:1 Kings 8:38 · King James Version
1 Kings 8:38 in context
36Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
40That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- supplicationtᵉchinnâhgraciousnessH8467 →
- prayertᵉphillâhintercession, supplicationH8605 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- plaguenegaʻa blowH5061 →
- heartlêbâbthe heartH3824 →
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Solomon having made a general surrender of this house to God, which God had signified his acceptance of by taking possession, next follows Solomon's prayer, in which he makes a more particular declaration of the uses of that surrender, with all humility and reverence, desiring that God would agree thereto.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-53