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1 Kings 8:39-42
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1 Kings 8:39-42
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39 please listen to their prayer. Listen while you are in your home in heaven and forgive them and help them. Only you know what people are really thinking, so only you can judge them fairly. 40 Do this so that your people will fear and respect you all the time that they live in this land that you gave to our ancestors.
41-42 “People from other places will hear about your greatness and your power. They will come from far away to pray at this Temple.
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1 Kings 8:39-41
New International Version
1 Kings 8:39-41
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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—
1 Kings 8:39-41
King James Version
1 Kings 8:39-41
King James Version
39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
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