1 Kings 8:49
Good News Translation
then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them.

New Revised Standard Version
then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, maintain their cause

New American Bible
listen in heaven, your dwelling place, to their prayer and petition, and uphold their cause.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:

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Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:

then hear

1 Kings 8:30 That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and hear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest, shew them mercy.

cause.

1 Kings 8:45 And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.

2 Kings 19:19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the only God.

Zechariah 1:15,16 And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil. . . .

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
48And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they have been led captives: and pray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which I have built to thy name: 49Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:50And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all their iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and give them mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may have compassion on them.…
Cross References
1 Kings 8:48
And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they have been led captives: and pray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which I have built to thy name:

1 Kings 8:50
And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all their iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and give them mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may have compassion on them.

Psalm 140:12
I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

1 Kings 8:48
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