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and pray and plead with you in this house, <a href="/bsb/1_kings/8.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple, <a href="/kjv/1_kings/8.htm">King James Bible</a> When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: <a href="/nkjv/1_kings/8.htm">New King James Version</a> “When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication to You in this temple, <a href="/nasb_/1_kings/8.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and implore Your favor in this house, <a href="/nasb/1_kings/8.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house, <a href="/nasb77/1_kings/8.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “When Thy people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against Thee, if they turn to Thee again and confess Thy name and pray and make supplication to Thee in this house, <a href="/lsb/1_kings/8.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house, <a href="/amp/1_kings/8.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and then they turn to You again and praise Your Name and pray and ask for Your favor and compassion in this house (temple), <a href="/csb/1_kings/8.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> When your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against you, and they return to you and praise your name, and they pray and plead with you for mercy in this temple, <a href="/hcsb/1_kings/8.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and praise Your name, and they pray and plead with You for mercy in this temple, <a href="/asv/1_kings/8.htm">American Standard Version</a> When thy people Israel are smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; if they turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house: <a href="/cev/1_kings/8.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Suppose your people Israel sin against you, and then an enemy defeats them. If they come to this temple and beg for forgiveness, <a href="/erv/1_kings/8.htm">English Revised Version</a> When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; if they turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house: <a href="/gwt/1_kings/8.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "An enemy may defeat your people Israel because they have sinned against you. But when your people turn to you, praise your name, pray, and plead with you in this temple, <a href="/gnt/1_kings/8.htm">Good News Translation</a> "When your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they have sinned against you, and then when they turn to you and come to this Temple, humbly praying to you for forgiveness, <a href="/isv/1_kings/8.htm">International Standard Version</a> "If your people Israel are defeated in a battle with their enemy because they have sinned against you, when they return to you and confess to you, pray, and in this Temple they ask you to show grace to them, <a href="/msb/1_kings/8.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple, <a href="/net/1_kings/8.htm">NET Bible</a> "The time will come when your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help in this temple, <a href="/nheb/1_kings/8.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make petition to you in this house: <a href="/wbt/1_kings/8.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> When thy people Israel shall be smitten before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication to thee in this house: <a href="/web/1_kings/8.htm">World English Bible</a> “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn again to you and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house, <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/1_kings/8.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> In Your people Israel being struck before an enemy, because they sin against You, and they have turned back to You, and have confessed Your Name, and prayed, and made supplication to You in this house, <a href="/ylt/1_kings/8.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'In Thy people Israel being smitten before an enemy, because they sin against Thee, and they have turned back unto Thee, and have confessed Thy name, and prayed, and made supplication unto Thee in this house, <a href="/slt/1_kings/8.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> In thy people Israel being struck before the enemy because they will sin against thee, and they turned back to thee, and they confessed thy name and prayed, and made supplication to thee in this house.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/1_kings/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies, (because they will sin against thee,) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name, shall come, and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house: <a href="/cpdv/1_kings/8.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And if your people Israel will have fled from their enemies, because they have sinned against you, and doing penance and confessing to your name, shall arrive and pray and petition you in this house, <a href="/nabre/1_kings/8.htm">New American Bible</a> “When your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you, and then they return to you, praise your name, pray to you, and entreat you in this house, <a href="/nrsvce/1_kings/8.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> “When your people Israel, having sinned against you, are defeated before an enemy but turn again to you, confess your name, pray and plead with you in this house,<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/1_kings/8.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> When thy people Israel are defeated in the battle before the enemy because they have sinned before thee, and shall turn again to thee and confess thy name and pray and make supplication to thee in this house; <a href="/hpbt/1_kings/8.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And when your people Israel will be defeated in the battle of an enemy when they will sin before you, and they turn to you and they shall confess your name and they will pray and they shall beg of you in this place<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/1_kings/8.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> When Thy people Israel are smitten down before the enemy, when they do sin against Thee, if they turn again to Thee, and confess Thy name, and pray and make supplication unto Thee in this house; <a href="/sep/1_kings/8.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> When thy people Israel falls before enemies, because they shall sin against thee, and they shall return and confess to thy name, and they shall pray and supplicate in this house, <a href="/parallel/1_kings/8-33.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xx9A0AxPaoQ?start=3172" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/1_kings/8.htm">Solomon's Prayer of Dedication</a> …32then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness. 33<a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·mə·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">When Your people</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/5062.htm" title="5062: bə·hin·nā·ḡêp̄ (Prep-b:: V-Nifal-Inf) -- To strike, smite. A primitive root; to push, gore, defeat, stub, inflict.">are defeated</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: lip̄·nê (Prep-l:: N-cpc) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">before</a> <a href="/hebrew/341.htm" title="341: ’ō·w·yêḇ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- Hating, an adversary. Or owyeb; active participle of 'ayab; hating; an adversary.">an enemy</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">because</a> <a href="/hebrew/2398.htm" title="2398: ye·ḥeṭ·’ū- (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to miss; hence to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn.">they have sinned</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- ">against You,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: wə·šā·ḇū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">and they return</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ê·le·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- To, into, towards. ">to You</a> <a href="/hebrew/3034.htm" title="3034: wə·hō·w·ḏū (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-3cp) -- To throw, cast. ">and confess</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8034.htm" title="8034: šə·me·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- A primitive word; an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character.">Your name,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6419.htm" title="6419: wə·hiṯ·pal·lū (Conj-w:: V-Hitpael-ConjPerf-3cp) -- To intervene, interpose. A primitive root; to judge; by extension, to intercede, pray.">praying</a> <a href="/hebrew/2603.htm" title="2603: wə·hiṯ·ḥan·nə·nū (Conj-w:: V-Hitpael-ConjPerf-3cp) -- A primitive root; properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore.">and pleading</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ê·le·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- To, into, towards. ">with You</a> <a href="/hebrew/2088.htm" title="2088: haz·zeh (Art:: Pro-ms) -- This, here. A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.">in this</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bab·ba·yiṯ (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">temple,</a> 34then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-24.htm">2 Chronicles 6:24-25</a> When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple, / then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers. <a href="/deuteronomy/30-1.htm">Deuteronomy 30:1-3</a> “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, / and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, / then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. <a href="/leviticus/26-40.htm">Leviticus 26:40-42</a> But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— / and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, / then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. <a href="/jeremiah/29-12.htm">Jeremiah 29:12-14</a> Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. / You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. / I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.” <a href="/nehemiah/1-8.htm">Nehemiah 1:8-9</a> Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, / but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’ <a href="/psalms/106-6.htm">Psalm 106:6-7</a> We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly. / Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea. <a href="/daniel/9-4.htm">Daniel 9:4-5</a> And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments, / we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances. <a href="/hosea/5-15.htm">Hosea 5:15</a> Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.” <a href="/isaiah/55-6.htm">Isaiah 55:6-7</a> Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. / Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. <a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12-13</a> “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” / So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster. <a href="/matthew/18-19.htm">Matthew 18:19-20</a> Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. / For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.” <a href="/luke/15-18.htm">Luke 15:18-20</a> I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. / I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’ / So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. <a href="/acts/3-19.htm">Acts 3:19</a> Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, <a href="/james/5-16.htm">James 5:16</a> Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail. <a href="/1_john/1-9.htm">1 John 1:9</a> If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>When your people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house:smitten down<a href="/leviticus/26-17.htm">Leviticus 26:17,25</a> And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you… <a href="/deuteronomy/28-25.htm">Deuteronomy 28:25,48</a> The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth… <a href="/joshua/7-8.htm">Joshua 7:8</a> O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!because they have<a href="/joshua/7-11.htm">Joshua 7:11,12</a> Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff… <a href="/judges/6-1.htm">Judges 6:1,2</a> And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years… <a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-18</a> For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, … turn again<a href="/leviticus/26-39.htm">Leviticus 26:39-42</a> And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them… <a href="/nehemiah/1-8.htm">Nehemiah 1:8,9</a> Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: … <a href="/jonah/3-10.htm">Jonah 3:10</a> And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.pray<a href="/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5</a> And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,<a href="/nehemiah/9-1.htm">Nehemiah 9:1-3</a> Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them… <a href="/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15-19</a> Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? … in.<a href="/1_kings/8-30.htm">1 Kings 8:30</a> And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_kings/2-44.htm">Acknowledge</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-50.htm">Confess</a> <a href="/1_samuel/7-6.htm">Confessed</a> <a href="/2_samuel/18-7.htm">Defeated</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-18.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-28.htm">Grace</a> <a href="/1_samuel/2-29.htm">Honouring</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-31.htm">House</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-30.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-5.htm">Making</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-38.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-30.htm">Prayers</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-28.htm">Praying</a> <a href="/2_samuel/13-27.htm">Requesting</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-31.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-31.htm">Sinned</a> <a href="/2_samuel/23-21.htm">Smitten</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-46.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-30.htm">Supplication</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-29.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-28.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-14.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-5.htm">War</a> <a href="/2_samuel/19-7.htm">Worse</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm">Acknowledge</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm">Confess</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm">Confessed</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-32.htm">Defeated</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-37.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-45.htm">Grace</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm">Honouring</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-38.htm">House</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-34.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-54.htm">Making</a> <a href="/1_kings/9-8.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm">Prayers</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-54.htm">Praying</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-17.htm">Requesting</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-34.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm">Sinned</a> <a href="/1_kings/11-15.htm">Smitten</a> <a href="/1_kings/11-15.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-38.htm">Supplication</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-42.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-35.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-44.htm">War</a> <a href="/1_kings/16-25.htm">Worse</a><div class="vheading2">1 Kings 8</div>1. <a href="/1_kings/8-1.htm">The feast of the temple</a> 12. <a href="/1_kings/8-12.htm">Solomon's blessing</a> 22. <a href="/1_kings/8-22.htm">Solomon's prayer</a> 54. <a href="/1_kings/8-54.htm">Solomon's blessing</a> 62. <a href="/1_kings/8-62.htm">His sacrifice of peace offerings</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/1_kings/8.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/1_kings/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/1_kings/8.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy This phrase reflects the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where obedience brings blessings and disobedience results in consequences, such as defeat by enemies. Historically, Israel faced numerous military challenges, often attributed to their spiritual state. The defeat serves as a divine warning, urging the nation to examine their faithfulness to God. This concept is echoed in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>, where blessings and curses are outlined based on Israel's obedience.because they have sinned against You Sin is the root cause of Israel's defeat, highlighting the moral and spiritual dimensions of their struggles. The Old Testament frequently links national calamities to the people's sinfulness, emphasizing the need for repentance. This reflects the broader biblical theme of sin leading to separation from God, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/59-2.htm">Isaiah 59:2</a>, which states that iniquities create a barrier between God and His people.and they return to You The call to return signifies repentance, a central theme in the prophetic literature. Returning to God involves a heartfelt change and a renewed commitment to His commandments. This mirrors the message of the prophets, such as Hosea and Joel, who urged Israel to return to the Lord with sincerity. The concept of returning is also a precursor to the New Testament call for repentance and faith in Christ.and confess Your name Confession involves acknowledging God's sovereignty and holiness, as well as admitting one's own sinfulness. This act of confession is crucial for restoration and forgiveness, as seen in 1 <a href="/john/1-9.htm">John 1:9</a>, which promises forgiveness for those who confess their sins. Confession is both a personal and communal act, reflecting the collective responsibility of the nation.praying and pleading with You Prayer and supplication are vital components of Israel's relationship with God. This phrase underscores the importance of earnest prayer in seeking divine intervention and mercy. The Psalms are filled with examples of such prayers, demonstrating the power of heartfelt supplication. This also foreshadows the New Testament emphasis on prayer, as taught by Jesus in passages like <a href="/matthew/6-9.htm">Matthew 6:9-13</a>.in this temple The temple in Jerusalem is the focal point of Israel's worship and the dwelling place of God's presence. Solomon's temple, where this prayer is offered, symbolizes God's covenant with Israel and His desire to dwell among His people. The temple's significance is further highlighted in the New Testament, where Jesus refers to His body as the temple (<a href="/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19-21</a>), indicating the shift from a physical building to a spiritual reality in Christ.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a> The king of Israel who is offering this prayer during the dedication of the temple in Jerusalem. He is seeking God's favor and forgiveness for the people of Israel. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The chosen people of God, who are the subject of Solomon's prayer. They are depicted as having sinned and facing defeat as a consequence. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_temple_in_jerusalem.htm">The Temple in Jerusalem</a> The newly built house of God where Solomon is praying. It serves as a central place of worship and a symbol of God's presence among His people. 4. <a href="/topical/e/enemies.htm">Enemies</a> The adversaries of Israel who defeat them due to Israel's sin. They serve as instruments of God's discipline. 5. <a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_supplication.htm">Repentance and Supplication</a> The actions that Solomon describes as necessary for Israel to regain God's favor. This involves turning back to God, confessing His name, and praying.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a> Sin leads to separation from God and can result in tangible consequences, such as defeat or hardship. Recognizing this helps us understand the importance of living in obedience to God's commands. <a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_repentance.htm">The Power of Repentance</a> True repentance involves turning back to God, acknowledging our sins, and seeking His forgiveness. This is a powerful act that can restore our relationship with God and bring about His favor. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_temple.htm">The Role of the Temple</a> The temple serves as a physical reminder of God's presence and a place for His people to seek Him. Today, we can approach God through prayer and worship, knowing that He hears us. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_to_forgive.htm">God's Faithfulness to Forgive</a> God is faithful to forgive those who genuinely repent and seek Him. This assurance encourages us to continually turn to Him, regardless of our past failures. <a href="/topical/c/community_and_intercession.htm">Community and Intercession</a> Solomon's prayer highlights the importance of interceding for others. We are called to pray for our communities and nations, seeking God's mercy and guidance.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_kings_8.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Kings 8</a> <a href="/q/why_promise_restoration_if_judgment_remains.htm">Why does Solomon’s prayer in 1 Kings 8:33–34 promise national restoration to Israel if they repent, when other biblical passages suggest God’s judgment can remain despite repentance? </a> <a href="/q/how_were_142,000_sacrifices_feasible.htm">Given 1 Kings 8:63, where 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep are sacrificed, how is it feasible to perform such a massive ritual in a single location without logistical contradictions?</a> <a href="/q/when_did_king_baasha_die.htm">In what year of King Asa's reign did Baasha, King of Israel die? Twenty-sixth year (I Kings 15:33 - 16:8) Still alive in the thirty-sixth year (2 Chronicles 16:1)</a> <a href="/q/is_1_kings_8_27_contradictory.htm">In 1 Kings 8:27, Solomon acknowledges that God cannot be contained by the temple, yet the chapter emphasizes the temple as God's dwelling; isn't this contradictory?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_kings/8.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(33, 34) When thy people.--From the individual, the prayer turns to those which touch the whole nation. It pictures various national calamities, and in each recognises not mere evils, but chastisements of God, who desires by them to teach, and is most ready to forgive. First it naturally dwells on disaster in battle, which, in the whole history of the Exodus, of the Conquest, of the troubled age of the Judges, and of the reigns of Saul and David, is acknowledged as a sign of unfaithfulness in Israel, either through sin or through idolatry, to the covenant of God, on which the victorious possession of the promised land depended. On that history the blessing and the curse of the Law (<a href="/leviticus/26-17.htm" title="And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.">Leviticus 26:17</a>; <a href="/context/leviticus/26-32.htm" title="And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.">Leviticus 26:32-33</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/28-25.htm" title="The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.">Deuteronomy 28:25</a>) form a commentary of emphatic warning, and the Psalms again and again bring the same lesson home (<a href="/context/psalms/44-1.htm" title="We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.">Psalm 44:1-3</a>; <a href="/context/psalms/44-9.htm" title="But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.">Psalm 44:9-17</a>; <a href="/context/psalms/60-9.htm" title="Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?">Psalm 60:9-11</a>; <a href="/context/psalms/89-42.htm" title="You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.">Psalm 89:42-46</a>). With characteristic seriousness, Solomon looks back from his peaceful prosperity on the stormy past, and from it learns to pray for the future. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_kings/8.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 33. - When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy [cf. <a href="/leviticus/26-7.htm">Leviticus 26:7, 17</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/28-25.htm">Deuteronomy 28:25</a>. There is a constant reference to these two chapters throughout this prayer, or, if no direct reference to them, there are unmistakeable reminiscences of them], because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess [or praise. Psalm 54:8 Hebr. [Psalm 54:7]; Psalms 106:47; 122:4] thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house. [The marg. towards is a mistaken attempt at avoiding the difficulty which lies on the surface of the text, viz., that persons in a foreign land could not pray in the temple. But the king obviously is speaking here, not of those taken captive, but of the nation at large ("thy people Israel") by its representatives (cf. <a href="/joel/2-17.htm">Joel 2:17</a>), supplicating after its defeat. The idea of captives does not come in until the next verse. Under the term house the courts are obviously included (<a href="/acts/2-46.htm">Acts 2:46</a>; <a href="/luke/18-10.htm">Luke 18:10</a>). Into the edifice the priests alone were admitted. <a href="/commentaries/1_kings/8-33.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>When Your people עַמְּךָ֧ (‘am·mə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock Israel יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc are defeated בְּֽהִנָּגֵ֞ף (bə·hin·nā·ḡêp̄) Preposition-b | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5062.htm">Strong's 5062: </a> To push, gore, defeat, stub, inflict before לִפְנֵ֥י (lip̄·nê) Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> The face an enemy אוֹיֵ֖ב (’ō·w·yêḇ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_341.htm">Strong's 341: </a> Hating, an adversary because אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that they have sinned against You, יֶחֶטְאוּ־ (ye·ḥeṭ·’ū-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2398.htm">Strong's 2398: </a> To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn and they return וְשָׁ֤בוּ (wə·šā·ḇū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> To turn back, in, to retreat, again to You אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ (’ê·le·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to and confess וְהוֹד֣וּ (wə·hō·w·ḏū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3034.htm">Strong's 3034: </a> To throw, at, away, to revere, worship, to bemoan Your name, שְׁמֶ֔ךָ (šə·me·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8034.htm">Strong's 8034: </a> A name praying וְהִֽתְפַּֽלְל֧וּ (wə·hiṯ·pal·lū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6419.htm">Strong's 6419: </a> To judge, to intercede, pray and pleading וְהִֽתְחַנְּנ֛וּ (wə·hiṯ·ḥan·nə·nū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2603.htm">Strong's 2603: </a> To bend, stoop in kindness to an inferior, to favor, bestow, to implore with You אֵלֶ֖יךָ (’ê·le·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to in this הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2088.htm">Strong's 2088: </a> This, that house, בַּבַּ֥יִת (bab·ba·yiṯ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/1_kings/8-33.htm">1 Kings 8:33 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-33.htm">OT History: 1 Kings 8:33 When your people Israel are struck down (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_kings/8-32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 8:32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 8:32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_kings/8-34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 8:34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 8:34" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>