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Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive.
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The Ultimate Request: Forgive
Commentators highlight that Solomon's entire prayer hinges on this single, crucial request: forgiveness. As Matthew Henry notes, 'under one word, ‘forgive,’ Solomon expressed all that he could ask.' Since all human trouble and misery ultimately spring from sin, the forgiveness of that sin is the necessary first step for receiving any true blessing or deliverance from God.
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1 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And when you hear, forgive — literally, “both hear and forgive” — that is, “hear the prayer, and forgive the sin” which alone causes God t…
19th Century
Anglican
The prayer of Solomon, uttered (see 1 Kings 8:54) on his knees with hands uplifted to heaven, long and detailed as it is, is yet extrem…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray towa…
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