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43 Hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger asks of You, so that all peoples of the earth may know Your name [and [a]Your revelation of Your presence] and fear and revere You, as do Your people Israel, and may know and comprehend that this house which I have built is called by Your Name [and contains the token of Your presence].

44 If Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You shall send them, and shall pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the house that I have built for Your Name [and Your revelation of Yourself],

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:43 See footnote on Exod. 3:15.

43 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know(A) your name and fear(B) you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.(C)

44 “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray(D) to the Lord toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name, 45 then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.(E)

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