1Kgs.8.29

1 Kings 8:29

KJV GOD

That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:11

KJV

Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:

One Place for Worship

Laws of the Sanctuary

1 Kings 8:52

KJV

That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

1 Kings 9:3

KJVGOD

And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

The LORD’s Response to Solomon

1 Kings 11:13

KJVGOD

Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.

God’s Anger against Solomon

Solomon Turns from God

2 Kings 19:16

KJV

Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

Hezekiah’s Prayer

2 Kings 21:4

KJVGOD

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

2 Kings 21:7

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And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

2 Chronicles 7:15

KJVGOD

Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

The LORD’s Response to Solomon

Nehemiah 1:6

KJV

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Nehemiah’s Prayer

Psalm 138:2

KJV

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

1 Kings 8:29

That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

Cross References

One Place for Worship

Laws of the Sanctuary

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

The LORD’s Response to Solomon

God’s Anger against Solomon

Solomon Turns from God

Hezekiah’s Prayer

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

The LORD’s Response to Solomon

Nehemiah’s Prayer

A Thankful Heart