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 12:23Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
• Ps 27:11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
• Jer 6:16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
• Ps 25:4–5Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
• 1 Kgs 18:1And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
• Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
• 1 Kgs 18:45And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
• Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
• Ps 68:9Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
• 2 Chr 6:26–27When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
• Ps 25:12What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
• Ps 119:33Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
• Jer 42:3That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
• Isa 30:21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
• Ps 143:8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
• Matt 22:16And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
• Isa 35:8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
• 1 Kgs 18:27–40And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
• Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
• Mic 4:2And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• Ps 32:8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
• Ps 5:8Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
• Jas 5:17–18Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
• Ps 86:11Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

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