1 Kings 8:36-38

Expanded Bible

³⁶ ·When this happens [Then], please hear their prayer in heaven, and forgive the ·sins [or sin] of your servants, ·the Israelites [^Lyour people Israel]. Teach them ·to do what is right [^Lthe good way they should walk]. Then please send rain to this land you have given ·particularly to them [^Lyour people for an inheritence].

³⁷ “·At times the land will become so dry that no food will grow [If there is a famine in the land], or ·a great sickness will spread among the people [pestilence]. ·Sometimes all the crops will be destroyed by […or blight or mildew or] locusts or grasshoppers. ·Your people will be attacked in […or the people are besieged in the land of] their cities by their enemy or ·will become sick [struck by plague or sickness…]. ³⁸ When any of these things happen, ·the people will become truly sorry [^Leach will know the affliction of his own heart]. ·If your people spread their hands in prayer [^L…and spread his hands] toward this ·Temple [^Lhouse],