1 Kings 8:48

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When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner, and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,

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  • Dan 6:10 : 10 When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.
  • Deut 4:29 : 29 But if you seek the LORD your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.
  • Jer 29:12-14 : 12 When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers. 13 When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul, 14 I will make myself available to you,’ says the LORD.‘Then I will reverse your plight and will regather you from all the nations and all the places where I have exiled you,’ says the LORD.‘I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.’
  • 1 Sam 7:3-4 : 3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel,“If you are really turning to the LORD with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the LORD and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the Israelites removed the Baals and images of Ashtoreth. They served only the LORD.
  • Jonah 2:4 : 4 I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!
  • Neh 1:9 : 9 But if you repent and obey my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’
  • Ps 119:2 : 2 How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart,
  • Ps 119:10 : 10 With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!
  • Ps 119:145 : 145 ק(Qof) I cried out with all my heart,“Answer me, O LORD! I will observe your statutes.”
  • Prov 23:26 : 26 Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby! 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 In spite of all this, Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,” says the LORD.
  • Jer 24:7 : 7 I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the LORD. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly return to me.’
  • Acts 8:36 : 36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,“Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?”
  • Rom 10:10 : 10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.
  • Dan 9:13 : 13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.
  • Hos 14:1-2 : 1 Prophetic Call to Genuine Repentance Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sin has been your downfall! 2 Return to the LORD and repent! Say to him:“Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29-30 : 29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably.
  • Deut 6:5-6 : 5 You must love the LORD your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength. 6 Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,
  • Judg 10:15-16 : 15 But the Israelites said to the LORD,“We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!” 16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned and worshiped the LORD. Finally the LORD grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.

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  • 2 Chr 6:37-40
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    37 When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting,‘We have sinned and gone astray, we have done evil!’

    38 When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,

    39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help, vindicate them, and forgive your sinful people.

    40 “Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40-47
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    40 Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

    41 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.

    42 When they hear about your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds, they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

    43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

    44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to the LORD toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

    45 then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

    46 “The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.

    47 When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting,‘We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.’

  • 1 Kgs 8:49-50
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    49 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

    50 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them.

  • 2 Chr 6:29-35
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    29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

    30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives.(Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)

    31 Then they will honor you by obeying you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

    32 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

    33 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

    34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

    35 then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

  • 1 Kgs 8:33-36
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    33 “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,

    34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

    35 “The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

    36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly you will then teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.

  • 2 Chr 6:24-26
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    24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help before you in this temple,

    25 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.

    26 “The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

  • Neh 1:8-9
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    8 Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses:‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.

    9 But if you repent and obey my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

  • 1 Kgs 8:28-30
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    28 But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today.

    29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

    30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably.

  • 1 Kgs 8:38
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    38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

  • 2 Chr 20:8-9
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    8 They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

    9 ‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will hear and deliver us.’

  • 2 Chr 30:9
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    9 For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The LORD your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you if you return to him.”

  • 2 Chr 6:19-21
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    19 But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you.

    20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

    21 Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place. Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive.

  • 1 Kgs 8:52
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    52 “May you be attentive to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.

  • Deut 30:2-3
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    2 Then if you and your descendants turn to the LORD your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,

    3 the LORD your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he has scattered you.

  • Neh 1:6
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    6 may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed against you– both I myself and my family have sinned.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
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    19 Now seek the LORD your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the LORD God! Then you can bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the LORD.”

  • 2 Chr 7:15
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    15 Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

  • Dan 9:18
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    18 Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.

  • Jer 42:12
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    12 I will have compassion on you so that he in turn will have mercy on you and allow you to return to your land.’

  • Ezra 4:1
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  • Jer 42:9
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    9 Then Jeremiah said to them,“You sent me to the LORD God of Israel to make your request known to him. Here is what he says to you:

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