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1 Kings 8:49 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; "
1 Kings 8:49
Verse in Context
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47 yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’
48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,
49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
51 (for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
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1 Kings 8:1
"Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion."
1 Kings 8:2
"All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month."
1 Kings 8:3
"All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark."
1 Kings 8:4
"They brought up the LORD’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up."
1 Kings 8:5
"King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude."
1 Kings 8:6
"The priests brought in the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings."
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