1st Kings Chapter 8 verse 45 Holy Bible
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Give ear in heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.
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then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.
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Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 45. - Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. [Heb. do their judgments, i.e., secure them justice, defend the right. Same words, Deuteronomy 10:18; cf. Psalm 9:5, Heb.] The last petition - the second of those which speak of prayers addressed towards the temple, or the Holy Presence which dwelt there, from a foreign land - contemplates as possible the captivity of the Hebrew nation. It has hence been too readily inferred that this portion of the prayer, at least, if not the preceding petition also, has been interpolated by a post-captivity writer. But there is really no solid reason for doubting its genuineness. Not only is it the seventh petition (see on ver. 31), but the captivity of Israel had been denounced as the punishment of persistent disobedience long before by Moses, and in the chapters to which such constant reference is made (Leviticus 26:33, 44; Deuteronomy 28:25, 36, 64; cf. 4:27) - a fact which is in itself an indirect proof of genuineness, as showing that this petition is of a piece with the rest of the prayer. And when to this we add that the carrying of a conquered and refractory race into captivity was an established custom of the East, we shall be inclined to agree with Bahr, that "it would have been more remarkable if Solomon had not mentioned it."
