Bring them again, from the land into which they are supposed to be carried by their enemies, into Canaan. Quest. If they were banished into a strange land, how could they pray in this house, as they are said to do, 1 Kings 8:33 ? Answ.
1. That may be rendered to or towards this house, as it is expressed, 1 Kings 8:29,30. The Hebrew preposition beth, in, being oft put for el, to, or towards.
2. This may be understood of divers persons; and so the sense is this: When the people of Israel be defeated in battle, and many of their brethren be taken prisoners, and carried into captivity; if then their brethren remaining in the land, shall heartily pray for theft captive brethren, they shall be delivered.