1 Kings 8:22-53
stood before ... altar <05975 06440 04196> [stood before the altar.]
spread <06566> [spread forth.]
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Lord God ....... god <03068 0430> [Lord God.]
God ....... god <0430> [no God.]
maintain ....... who obey <08104> [who keepest.]
have ..... promised <01696> [thou spakest.]
keep ........ servant ............................ watch <08104 05650> [keep with thy.]
fail <03772> [There shall not, etc. Heb. There shall not be cut off unto thee a man from my sight.]
[so that. Heb. only if. thy children.]
God <0430> [And now.]
made <01697> [let thy word.]
God <0430> [But will.]
sky .... highest heaven <08064> [the heaven.]
to <06437> [Yet have thou.]
<08085> [hearken.]
watch <05869> [That thine.]
live <08034> [My name.]
place ................ place <04725> [toward this place. or, in this place.]
<06419> [when they shall.]
place ........ place <04725> [toward this place. or, in this place. and hear.]
favorably <05545> [forgive.]
someone <0376> [If any man.]
Solomon here puts seven cases, in all of which the mercy and intervention of God would be indispensably requisite; and he earnestly bespeaks that mercy and intervention, on condition that the people pray towards that holy place, and with a feeling heart make earnest supplication to the throne of mercy.
sinning <02398> [trespass.]
curse <05375 0423> [an oath be laid upon him. Heb. he require an oath of him.]
curse <0423> [the oath.]
Listen ... heaven <08085 08064> [hear thou.]
Condemn <07561> [condemning.]
<06663> [justifying.]
defeated <05062> [smitten down.]
sinned <02398> [because they have.]
back <07725> [turn again.]
pray <06419> [pray.]
temple <01004> [in. or, toward.]
forgive ... sin <02403 05545> [forgive the sin.]
gave <05414> [which thou gavest.]
skies <08064> [heaven.]
prayers <06419> [if they pray.]
renew <03034> [confess.]
turn <07725> [and turn.]
teach <03384> [thou teach.]
right way <01870 02896> [the good way.]
rain ........ given <04306 05414> [give rain.]
land ..... famine ...................... land <07458 0776> [in the land famine.]
cities <08179> [cities. or, jurisdiction.]
pray <08605> [prayer.]
pain <05061> [the plague.]
spread out <06566> [spread forth.]
listen <08085> [Then hear.]
act .... each <0376 05414> [give to every man.]
evaluation .............. evaluate <03045> [for thou.]
obey ..... lifetimes <03372 03117> [fear thee.]
Foreigners <05237> [a stranger.]
come <0935> [cometh out.]
hear <08085> [For they shall.]
great reputation <08034 01419> [great name.]
ability to accomplish mighty deeds <03027 02389> [thy strong hand.]
come <0935> [when he shall.]
[that all the people.]
nations ......... obey ..... people <03372 05971> [fear thee.]
temple <01004> [this house. Heb. thy name is called upon this house.]
direct ........ fight <03318 04421> [go out to battle.]
toward <01870> [whithersoever.]
direct <06419> [shall pray.]
[toward the city. Heb. the way of the city.]
vindicate <04941> [cause. or, right.]
sin ........... sinless <02398> [If they sin.]
The second clause of this verse, as it is here translated, renders this supposition entirely nugatory; for if there be no man that sinneth not, it is useless to say, if they sin: but this objection is removed by rendering the original, "If they shall sin against thee, (for there is no man that, {lo yechetai,} may not sin;") i.e., there is no man impeccable or infallible; none that is not liable to transgress.
one <0120> [there is no man.]
over .............. land <06440 0776> [unto the land.]
repent <07725> [Yet if they.]
land ......... repent ......... land <07725 0776> [bethink themselves. Heb. bring back to their heart. saying.]
admitting <05753> [done perversely.]
return <07725> [And so return.]
direct ...... toward <06419 01870> [pray unto.]
city <05892> [the city.]
listen <08085> [Then hear.]
vindicate <04941> [cause. or, right.]
<05414 07356> [and give them.]
people <05971> [thy people.]
furnace <03564> [the furnace.]
attentive <05869> [That thine.]
prayers <07121> [in all that.]
picked ... out <0914> [separate.]
possession <05159> [thine inheritance.]
announced <01696> [as thou.]
