then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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then hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 8:45 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 18:25 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
- Psalms 9:4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, maintain their right.
Or, maintain their right.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer…
1Ki 8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Ver. 45. And maintain their cause.] By appearing for them in the high places of the field, and fighting their battles.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Declare the justice of their cause, by giving them…
Declare the justice of their cause, by giving them the victory.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their…
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,.... For success:
and maintain their cause; do them justice, and avenge their injuries, as the Targum; let it appear that their cause is right, by giving them victory.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their…
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. Heb. do their judgments, i.e., secure them justice, defend the right. Same words, Deu_10:18; cf. Psa_9:5, Heb.
The last petition the second of those which speak of prayers addressed towards the temple, or the Holy Presence which dwelt there, from a foreign land contemplates as possible the captivity of the Hebrew nation. It has hence been too readily inferred that this portion of the prayer, at least, if not the preceding petition also, has been interpolated by a post-captivity writer. But there is really no solid reason for doubting its genuineness. Not only is it the seventh petition (see on ver. 31), but the captivity of Israel had been denounced as the punishment of persistent disobedience long before by Moses, and in the chapters to which such constant reference is made (Lev_26:33, 44 Deu_28:25, Deu_28:36, Deu_28:64; cf. 4:27) a fact which is in itself an indirect proof of genuineness, as showing that this petition is of a piece with the rest of the prayer. And when to this we add that the carrying of a conquered and refractory race into captivity was an established custom of the East, we shall be inclined to agree with Bahr, that "it would have been more remarkable if Solomon had not mentioned it."
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