1 Kings 8:49 - Printer Friendly

ESV: then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause

NIV: then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.

NASB: then hear their prayer and their pleading in heaven, Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

CSB: may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place, their prayer and petition and uphold their cause.

NLT: then hear their prayers and their petition from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause.

KJV: Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

NKJV: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,

This was originally the first half of a combined text. First Kings records the end of David's reign and the rule of Solomon. After this, the kingdom is split in two. The northern nation of Israel no longer submits to the king of the southern nation, called Judah. The prophet Elijah first appears in this book. The kings mostly fail to honor the Lord. They participate in idolatry and other sins. This will eventually result in their conquest and exile, as depicted throughout the books of Chronicles.

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