then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave 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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
- 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
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- Dan 9:19Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
- Jer 32:37“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
- Jer 33:10–13Yahweh says: “Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,’
- Jer 31:27“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.
- Jer 31:4–9I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.
- Josh 21:43So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.
- 1 Kgs 8:30Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
- Ezra 1:1–6Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
- Dan 9:12He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
- Dan 9:25Know therefore and discern, that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
- Amos 7:2When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
- Gen 13:15for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
- Exod 6:8I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’”
- Ps 106:47Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
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