1 Kings 8:30-39
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And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
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"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take v an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,
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then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, w condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
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x "When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and y if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.
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z "When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when a you teach them b the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
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c "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
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whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,
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then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ( d for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
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Cross References
Exodus 22:11
An oath by the Lord shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
Deuteronomy 28:45
All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:40
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
Nehemiah 1:9
But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:17
Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
Luke 4:25
But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land.
Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Cross References
Psalms 25:4
Make me to know your ways, O Lord ; teach me your paths.
Psalms 27:11
Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
Psalms 86:11
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
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Cross References
1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:16
Then I will do this to you: I will visit you wi...
Leviticus 26:25 - 26
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall e...
Deuteronomy 28:21 - 22
The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you ...
Deuteronomy 28:37 - 38
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a...
Deuteronomy 28:42
The cricket shall possess all your trees and th...
Deuteronomy 28:52
They shall besiege you in all your towns, until...
2 Chronicles 20:9
'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment...
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Acts 1:24
And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
Jeremiah 17:10
"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
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