1 Kings 8:38
What does 1 Kings 8:38 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Kings 8:38 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
KJV
King James Version · 1611What 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:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862any prayer, any supplication that <FI>is<Fi> of any man of all Thy people Israel, who know each the plague of his own heart, and hath spread his hands towards this house,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy people Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands in this house;
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, of all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;
Context
v.37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
v.38This passage
v.39then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 73:21
For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:
- Psalms 42:6
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
- 1 Kings 8:22
And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
- Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
- Psalms 42:9
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Psalms 42:11
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who isthe help of my countenance, and my God.
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