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, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
• Ps 27:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
• Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and 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, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
• 1 Kgs 18:1After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
• Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
• 1 Kgs 18:45In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
• Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
• Ps 68:9You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
• 2 Chr 6:26–27“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them;
• Ps 25:12What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
• Ps 119:33Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
• Jer 42:3that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.”
• Isa 30:21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
• Ps 143:8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
• Matt 22:16They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.
• Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
• 1 Kgs 18:27–40At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”
• Ps 25:8Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
• Mic 4:2Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, 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 will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
• Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
• Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
• Jas 5:17–18Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
• Ps 86:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

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