And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place. That house of prayer which Solomon was then dedicating was a type of the spiritual temple afterward to be built of living stones. And the purport of the king's petition, which was afterward answered by a covenant or solemn agreement (see the notes at 1 Kings 9:3), was, that whatever was spoken in the earthly temple should be heard and ratified in the heavenly temple.