1 Kings 8:36

Solomon asks God to forgive, teach the right way, and send rain again. It joins forgiveness, instruction, and provision.

Cross-references · 24

• 1 Sam 12:23As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way.
• Ps 27:11Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.
• Jer 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
• Ps 25:4–5Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
• 1 Kgs 18:1After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
• Ps 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
• 1 Kgs 18:45Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
• Jer 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
• Ps 68:9You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
• 2 Chr 6:26–27When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
• Ps 25:12Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
• Ps 119:33Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
• Jer 42:3Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”
• Isa 30:21And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
• Ps 143:8Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
• Matt 22:16They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no attention to external appearance.
• Isa 35:8And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
• 1 Kgs 18:27–40At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
• Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
• Mic 4:2And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.
• Ps 5:8Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
• Jas 5:17–18Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
• Ps 86:11Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.

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