then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
Parallel translations
- WEB then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
- KJV Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
- NKJV then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.
- NASB then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave their fathers.
- NLT then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and return them to this land you gave their ancestors.
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Quick answer
Solomon asks God to forgive penitent Israel and restore them to their land. It links forgiveness with restoration.
Overview
When the people repent, Solomon prays that God would hear, forgive, and bring them back to the land He gave their fathers. Forgiveness leads to restoration of God's covenant blessings. This anticipates the fuller restoration secured in Christ, who brings the forgiven into the inheritance of God's people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Dan 9:19O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”
- Jer 32:37I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
- Jer 33:10–13This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
- Jer 31:27“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.
- Jer 31:4–9Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
- Josh 21:43Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it.
- 1 Kgs 8:30Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
- Ezra 1:1–6In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
- Dan 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
- Dan 9:25Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
- Amos 7:2And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
- Gen 13:15for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- Exod 6:8And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”
- Ps 106:47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
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