"If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD tow…" — 1 Kings 8:44

1 Kings 8:44 · KJV

“If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and {toward} the house that I have built for thy name: {toward the city: Heb. the way of the city}”

— 1 Kings 8:44

Verse 43

Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as {do} thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name. {this...: Heb. thy name is called upon this house}

Verse 45

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. {cause: or, right}

1 Kings 8 — Context

(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and {toward} the house that I have built for thy name: {toward the city: Heb. the way of the city}

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. {cause: or, right}

If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:34

If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

Psalms 78:67-69

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

1 Kings 8:16

Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

Daniel 9:17-19

Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

Psalms 132:13-14

For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired {it} for his habitation.

Joshua 1:2-5

Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, {even} to the children of Israel.

Numbers 31:1-12

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Chronicles 20:6-13

And said, O LORD God of our fathers, {art} not thou God in heaven? and rulest {not} thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand {is there not} power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

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