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1 Kings 8:49

then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven, Thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause, uphold their right,

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE _ 1. The great assembly (1 Kings 8:1)_ 2. The transportation of the ark (1 Kings 8:3) 3. The glory of the LORD filling the house (1 Kings 8:10) 4. Solomon's o...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SOLOMON'S DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE, PRAYER AND ADDRESS. This chapter is mainly Deuteronomic, being clearly written from the standpoint of one who has seen the Temple as the one national sanctuary of I...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and maintain their cause_ The words are the same as in 1 Kings 8:45, but the idea is a little different. There the -cause" was a righteous war undertaken at God's direction; here the phrase implies t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. THE DEDICATORY PRAYER 8:22-53 The dedicatory prayer of Solomon is one of the most beautiful passages in the Bible. No doubt the author of Kings copied this composition from the _book of the acts of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _YET IF THEY SHALL BETHINK THEMSELVES IN THE LAND WHITHER THEY WERE CARRIED CAPTIVES, AND REPENT, AND MAKE SUPPLICATION UNTO THEE IN THE LAND OF THEM THAT CARRIED THEM CAPTIVES, SAYING, WE HAVE SINNED...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE. SOLOMON'S PRAYER 1. The chief of the fathers] i.e. heads of families. OUT OF THE CITY] The Temple and Palace were built on the site of Araunah's threshing floor (2 Chroni...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 8 THE CEREMONY AT THE OPENING OF THE *TEMPLE V1 King Solomon called the leaders of the *tribes and the families in *Israel together. The...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (44-50) IF THY PEOPLE GO out. — The prayer here returns once more to invoke God’s aid against earthly enemies. It is characteristic of the foreboding tone of sadness, which runs through the whole pray...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (23-53) The prayer of Solomon, uttered (see 1 Kings 8:54) on his knees with hands uplifted to heaven, long and detailed as it is, is yet of extreme simplicity of idea. It begins (_a_), in 1 Kings 8:23...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׁמַעְתָּ֤ הַ שָּׁמַ֨יִם֙ מְכֹ֣ון שִׁבְתְּךָ֔...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE IDEAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 7:13; 1 Kings 8:12 "The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father But the hour cometh, and now is, whe...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE GRADUAL GROWTH OF THE LEVITIC RITUAL 1 Kings 8:1 "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice." - 1 Samuel 15:22 BEFORE we enter on the subject of the Temple worship, it is necessary to emphasize...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PLEA FOR NATIONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS 1 Kings 8:44 How true it is that there is no man that sinneth not, 1 Kings 8:46! Only one that ever walked this earth was holy, guileless, and undefiled, Hebrews 7:2...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The Temple being finished, the great ceremony of dedication commenced. The permanent link between Tabernacle and Temple was the Ark of the Covenant. With great care and impressive ceremony, they had c...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (31) If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: (32) Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people desi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The circumstances which revealed the character of this rest were remarkable. The staves, with which the priests had borne the ark, were now the memorial of their journeys with God, who, in His faithfu...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN HEAR THOU THEIR PRAYERS, AND THEIR SUPPLICATION, IN HEAVEN THY DWELLINGPLACE,.... For their deliverance out of captivity: and maintain their cause; plead it, and do them justice, avenge their inj...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, Ver. 49. _And maintain their cause._] Or, Right. Vindicate them out of the hands of their op...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _If they shall bethink themselves_ Consider their ways, and reflect on their past conduct as the cause of their sufferings. Hebrew, _If they shall bring back their hearts_ from their idols and vanitie...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The feast of the dedication of the Temple. 12 and 54 Solomons blessing. 22 Solomons prayer. 62 His sacrifice of peace offrings. 1 THEN [NOTE: 2 Chronicles 5:2.] Solomon assembled the Elders of...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ARK AND TABERNACLE FURNITURE (vs.1-13) The temple being completed, there was one matter of importance remaining. Thus, for the bringing of the ark to the temple Solomon assembled the elders of Is...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CAUSE: Or, right...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    22-53 In this excellent prayer, Solomon does as we should do in every prayer; he gives glory to God. Fresh experiences of the truth of God's promises call for larger praises. He sues for grace and fa...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Heb. _their right_, against their invaders and oppressors. For they had forfeited all their rights to God only, but not to their enemies; whom though God used as scourges to chastise his people's sins...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 8:49 hear H8085 (H8804) heaven H8064 dwelling H3427 (H8800) place H4349 prayer H8605 supplication H8467 main

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SOLOMON'S PRAYER OF DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE (1 KINGS 8:22). Having, as he hoped, reconciled the people to having the Temple in Jerusalem as their Central Sanctuary, Solomon now reminded God of His co...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Ark brought in; Skekinah glory fills the temple. Solomon's sermon. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: All cost and pains are lost on stately structures unless God has been in the work,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Kings 8:1. _Solomon assembled the elders,_ after twenty years' labour. That is, in the fourth year of his reign he began to build the temple; in seven years and a half more he finished and dedicated...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord._ THE DEDICATORY PRAYER Now we approach the great prayer by which the temple was dedicated. The house itself was nothing. It was but a gilded sepulchre, a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 8:22 The ark of the covenant has arrived in the temple (vv. 1 Kings 8:1), and Solomon has addressed the people about the meaning of the event (vv....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 8:46 CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE. The seventh petition returns to defeat and exile, the major concern of the prayer. In exile, if the people should REPENT and pray toward l

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 8:28. PRAYER, SUPPLICATION, AND CRY—תְּפִלָּה, מְּחִנּה רנּה are respectively _prayer in general_ (whether praise, petition, or thanks), _entreaty_ or supplic...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.—The stately and impressive service with which the Temple, the character and contents of which have now been described, was dedicated, is related in this chapt...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, and they brought the ark of the covenant into the temple, and as they did, the glory of the Lord came and filled the temple and...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:30; 1 Kings 8:45; 2 Kings 19:19; Zechariah 1:15; Zechar

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Their course — Heb. their right, against their invaders and oppressors. For they had forfeited all their rights to God only, but not to their enemies; whom tho' God used as scourges to chastise his pe...

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