and if your people Israel pray about their troubles, raising their hands toward this Temple,
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- WEB whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
- KJV What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
- BSB then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
- NKJV whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple:
- NASB whatever prayer or plea is offered by any person or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house;
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Solomon prays for anyone who, knowing his own heart's plague, spreads out his hands toward the temple. It highlights personal, heartfelt repentance.
Overview
The petition centers on the individual who recognizes the affliction of his own heart, his sin, and turns to God in prayer. True repentance is inward and personal, not merely corporate. This anticipates the gospel emphasis on heartfelt conviction of sin and turning to God for mercy through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 20
- Amos 7:1–6Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.
- Ps 73:21–22For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
- 1 Kgs 8:22Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;
- Phil 4:6In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
- Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
- Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- Ps 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
- Isa 37:4It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
- 2 Chr 20:5–13Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court;
- Isa 37:15–21Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
- Ps 42:9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
- Prov 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
- Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Ps 142:3–5When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
- Ps 42:6My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
- 2 Chr 6:29whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house;
- Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
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