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1 Kings 8:39-42
Contemporary English Version
1 Kings 8:39-42
Contemporary English Version
39 You know what is in everyone's heart. So from your home in heaven answer their prayers, according to the way they live and what is in their hearts. 40 Then your people will worship and obey you for as long as they live in the land you gave their ancestors.
41-42 Foreigners will hear about you and your mighty power, and some of them will come to live among your people Israel. If any of them pray toward this temple,
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1 Kings 8:39-41
New International Version
1 Kings 8:39-41
New International Version
39 then hear(A) from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive(B) and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know(C) their hearts (for you alone know every human heart), 40 so that they will fear(D) you all the time they live in the land(E) you gave our ancestors.
41 “As for the foreigner(F) who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name—
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