then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
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- WEB then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
- KJV Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
- NKJV then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
- NASB then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel; indeed, teach them the good way in which they are to walk. And provide rain on Your land, which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
- NLT then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.
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Quick answer
Solomon asked God to forgive, teach them the good way, and send rain on the land. He sought both pardon and renewed instruction and provision.
Overview
Solomon prayed that God would forgive the repentant, instruct them in righteous living, and restore the rain. He recognized that true restoration includes God teaching his people to walk rightly. This longing for God to teach and provide anticipates the new covenant promise of God writing his law on hearts, fulfilled through Christ and the Spirit.
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- Jer 5:24They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Zech 10:1Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- 1 Kgs 8:35–36When 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,
- Joel 2:23Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- 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!’
- 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.”
- 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.
- Jer 42:3Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”
- Job 37:11–14He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- Ps 119:33Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
- Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
- Ps 25:12Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
- 1 Kgs 18:40–45Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
- Ps 25:4–5Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
- Ps 68:9You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
- 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.
- John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
- Hos 2:21–22“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.
- 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.
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