Psalms 28:2

David asks God to hear his pleas as he lifts his hands toward God's holy sanctuary. It pictures earnest, reverent prayer directed to God's presence.

Cross-references · 17

• Ps 138:2I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
• Ps 141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
• Ps 140:6I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
• 1 Tim 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
• Ps 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
• Dan 6:10When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
• Ps 143:6I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
• 2 Chr 6:13(for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven)
• 1 Kgs 8:28–30Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;
• 1 Kgs 8:38whatever 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,
• Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
• Lam 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
• Ps 63:4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
• 1 Kgs 8:6–8The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.
• 1 Kgs 6:19He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.
• 1 Kgs 6:22–23He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

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