1 Kings 9:3

God says He has heard Solomon's prayer and consecrated the temple, setting His name and heart there. It confirms God's acceptance of the temple.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Jn 5:14This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
• Ps 10:17Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
• 2 Kgs 20:5“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.
• 1 Kgs 8:29that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
• Ps 116:1I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
• Deut 11:12a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
• Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
• 2 Chr 6:40“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
• Exod 20:11for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
• Matt 6:9Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
• Acts 10:31and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
• Jer 15:1Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
• 1 Kgs 8:10–11It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,
• Dan 9:23At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
• Deut 12:11then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
• Num 16:38even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
• Deut 16:11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
• Song 4:9–10You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
• 2 Chr 7:15–16Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
• Ps 66:19But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
• John 11:42I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
• Deut 12:5But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.
• Deut 12:21If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

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