1 Kings 8:44

Prayer

⁴² (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;

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.

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:

⁴⁵ Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

⁴⁶ 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;

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
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:
WEB: “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name,
ASV: If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way thou shalt send them, and they pray unto Jehovah toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name;
DARBY: If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray to Jehovah toward the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;
BLB: when Your people go out to battle against their enemy in the way that You send them, and they pray to YHWH [in] the way of the city that You have chosen, and the house that I have built for Your name,

ÅB: Når ditt folk drar ut i krig mot sin fiende på den vei du sender dem, og de så ber til Herren, vendt mot den stad du har utvalgt, og det hus jeg har bygget for ditt navn,
OTB: Når Ditt folk går ut i kamp mot sin fiende, på hvilken som helst måte Du sender dem, og de ber til Herren mot byen Du har valgt og huset jeg har bygget for Ditt navn,
B1930: Når ditt folk drar ut i krig mot sin fiende på den vei du sender dem, og de så beder til Herren, vendt mot den stad du har utvalgt, og det hus jeg har bygget for ditt navn,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

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;
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Psalms 78:67–69
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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Psalms 132:13–14
For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
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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.
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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.
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Deuteronomy 20:1–4
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
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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.
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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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