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[FONT="]“When anyone wrongs their neighbour and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] before your altar in this temple,[/FONT]
1 Kings 8:32 (KJV)
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
[h=1](1 Kings 8:34): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.
[h=1](1 Kings 8:35): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]35 “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,
[FONT="]then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] them the right way[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] to live, and send rain[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.[/FONT]
1 Kings 8:37 (KJV)
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
[FONT="]What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:[/FONT]
1 Kings 8:39 (HCSB)
may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and may You forgive, act, and repay the man, according to all his ways, since You know his heart, for You alone know every human heart,
[FONT="] for they will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple,[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
1 Kings 8:43 (HCSB)
may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all the foreigner asks You for. Then all the people on earth will know Your name, to fear You as Your people Israel do and know that this temple I have built is called by Your name.
“If your people go out to fight against their enemy, no matter by which way you send them, and they pray to Adonai toward the city you chose, toward the house I built for your name;
[FONT="]“When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]—and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] to their own lands, far away or near;[/FONT]
1 Kings 8:47 (KJV) 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 sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
[FONT="]And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:[/FONT]
(1 Kings 8:50): ... New American Standard Bible (NASB)
50 and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them