then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own heads and vindicating the righteous by rewarding them according to their righteousness.
1 Kings 8:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “If someone sins against a neighbor and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whenever a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears the oath before Your altar in this house, American Standard Version (1901) If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house; Common English Bible If someone wrongs another and must make a solemn pledge asserting innocence before your altar in this temple, Catholic Public Domain Version But if any man sins against his neighbor, and he has any kind of an oath by which he is bound, and he arrives because of the oath, before your altar in your house, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound: and come because of the oath before thy altar to thy house: |
then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own heads and vindicating the righteous by rewarding them according to their righteousness.
lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
“When any of you sin in that you have heard a public adjuration to testify and, although able to testify as one who has seen or learned of the matter, do not speak up, you are subject to punishment.
If one person sins against another, someone can intercede for the sinner with the Lord, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can make intercession?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to kill them.