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1 Kings 8:39-40 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 8 · verses 39–40 · King James Version
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.1 Kings 8:39-40 · King James Version
1 Kings 8:39-40 in context
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.
41Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;
42(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
Key words (Strong's)
- dwellingyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- forgiveçâlachto forgiveH5545 →
- knowestyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- heavenshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- placemâkôwnproperly, a fixtureH4349 →
- heartlêbâbthe heartH3824 →
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