Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication
1 Kings 8:45
In 11 translations
- BSB
- then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
- KJV
- Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.cause: or, right
- WEB
- then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- ASV
- then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- LSV
- then You have heard their prayer and their supplication in the heavens, and have maintained their cause.
- YLT
- then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.
- DBY
- then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.
- DRC
- And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.
- GNV
- Heare thou then in heauen their prayer and their supplication, and iudge their cause.
- JPS
- then hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- LXXE
- then shalt thou hear from heaven their supplication and their prayer, and shalt execute judgment for them.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם אֶת־תְּפִלָּתָ֖ם וְאֶת־תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- καὶ σὺ εἰσακούσῃ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τῆς δεήσεως αὐτῶν, καὶ τῆς προσευχῆς αὐτῶν, καὶ ποιήσεις τὸ δικαίωμα αὐτοῖς.
Who and where
◆ Reign of Solomon
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
PrayerDedicationSolomonIntercessionTempleStavesTemple, Solomon’sArk of the CovenantTemple, the FirstOmnipresence
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Cross-references most cited first
- Genesis 18:25Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
- Psalms 9:4For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
- Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
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