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1 Kings 8:47 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 8 · verse 47
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;1 Kings 8:47 · King James Version
1 Kings 8:47 in context
45Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
47Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
49Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- supplicationchânanproperly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferiorH2603 →
- perverselyʻâvâhto crook, literally or figurativelyH5753 →
- wickednessrâshaʻto be wrongH7561 →
- captivesshâbâhto transport into captivityH7617 →
- bethinkshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- repentlêbthe heartH3820 →
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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