1 Kings 8:49 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,l ”

• 1 Kings 8:49 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Solomon's Dedication of the Temple, Prayer and Address. This chapter is mainly Deuteronomic, being clearly written from the standpoint of one who has seen the Temple as the one national sanctuary o...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have si...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Dedication of the Temple. Solomon's Prayer 1. The chief of the fathers] i.e. heads of families. Out of the city ] The Temple and Palace were built on the site of Araunah's threshing floor ( 2...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (23-53) 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 of extreme simplicity of idea. It begins ( a ), in 1 Kings...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE GRADUAL GROWTH OF THE LEVITIC RITUAL 1 Kings 8:1-66 "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice." - 1 Samuel 15:22 BEFORE we enter on the subject of the Temple worship, it is necessary to...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Breaking Three Commandments 1 Kings 21:1-29 ; 1 Kings 1:1-53 ; 1 Kings 2:1-46 ; 1 Kings 3:1-28 ; 1 Kings 4:1-34 ; 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 ; 1 Kings 8:1-66 ; 1 Ki...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The Temple being finished, the great ceremony of dedication commenced. The permanent link between Tabernacle and Temple was the Ark of the Covenant. With great care and impressive ceremony, they had...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (31) If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: (32) Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judg...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then hear thou their prayers, and their supplication, in heaven thy dwellingplace ,.... For their deliverance out of captivity: and maintain their cause; plead it, and do them justice, avenge their...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, Ver. 49. And maintain their cause. ] Or, Right. Vindicate them out of the hands of their...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If they shall bethink themselves Consider their ways, and reflect on their past conduct as the cause of their sufferings. Hebrew, If they shall bring back their hearts from their idols and vaniti...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE ARK AND TABERNACLE FURNITURE (vs.1-13) The temple being completed, there was one matter of importance remaining. Thus, for the bringing of the ark to the temple Solomon assembled the elders...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Solomon's Prayer. B. C. 1003.       22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the L ORD in the...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Heb. their right , against their invaders and oppressors. For they had forfeited all their rights to God only, but not to their enemies; whom though God used as scourges to chastise his people's sin...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Solomon's Prayer Of Dedication Of The Temple ( 1 Kings 8:22-62 ). Having, as he hoped, reconciled the people to having the Temple in Jerusalem as their Central Sanctuary, Solomon now reminded God...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 8:28 . Prayer, supplication, and cry —תְּפִלָּה, מְּחִנּה רנּה are respectively prayer in general (whether praise, petition, or thanks), entreaty or...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Kings 8:1 . Solomon assembled the elders, after twenty years' labour. That is, in the fourth year of his reign he began to build the temple; in seven years and a half more he finished and dedica...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord. The dedicatory prayer Now we approach the great prayer by which the temple was dedicated. The house itself was nothing. It was but a gilded sepulchre...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE .—The stately and impressive service with which the Temple, the character and contents of which have now been described, was dedicated, is relate...

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Solomon's Invocation

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 8:30 ; 1 Kings 8:45 ; 2 Kings 19:19 ; Zechariah 1:15 ; Zechariah 1:16

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• 1 Kings 8:49 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Their course — Heb. their right, against their invaders and oppressors. For they had forfeited all their rights to God only, but not to their enemies; whom tho' God used as scourges to chastise his...

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