1 Kings 8:52

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 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.
  • 2 Chr 6:40 : 40 “Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.
  • Ps 145:18 : 18 The LORD is near all who cry out to him, all who cry out to him sincerely.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 8:28-30
    3 verses
    82%

    28But 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.

    29Night 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.

    30Respond 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 8:53
    81%

    53After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

  • 1 Kgs 8:58-59
    2 verses
    80%

    58May he make us submissive, so we can follow all his instructions and obey the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

    59May the LORD our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, so that he might vindicate his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.

  • 1 Kgs 8:48-51
    4 verses
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    48When 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,

    49then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

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

    51After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

  • 2 Chr 6:19-21
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    80%

    19But 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.

    20Night 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.

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

  • 2 Chr 6:39-40
    2 verses
    79%

    39then 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.

  • Neh 1:6
    79%

    6may 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 Kgs 8:33-34
    2 verses
    77%

    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,

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:38
    76%

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

  • 1 Chr 17:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation in the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds when you drove out nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

    22You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

  • 2 Chr 7:15
    75%

    15Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40-45
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    75%

    40Then 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.

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

    43Then 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,

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:36
    75%

    36then 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.

  • Neh 1:10
    74%

    10They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.

  • 2 Chr 6:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    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,

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:26
    74%

    26Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant, my father David, be realized.

  • 1 Chr 29:18
    74%

    18O LORD God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, always maintain these motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.

  • 2 Chr 6:29
    74%

    29When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

  • Ps 123:1
    73%

    1A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven.

  • Ps 119:18
    73%

    18Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in your law!

  • Dan 9:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17“So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.

    18Listen 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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:8
    73%

    8Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

  • 2 Chr 6:27
    73%

    27then 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.

  • Deut 9:27
    73%

    27Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

  • 2 Chr 6:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31Then 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.

  • 1 Chr 17:19
    73%

    19O LORD, for the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing in order to reveal your greatness.

  • Jer 42:9
    73%

    9Then 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:

  • 2 Chr 6:34-35
    2 verses
    72%

    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,

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

  • Deut 26:15
    72%

    15Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors– a land flowing with milk and honey.”

  • Ps 106:5
    72%

    5so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice along with your nation, and boast along with the people who belong to you.