1 Kings 9:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built and put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The Lord told him, I have heard your prayer and supplication which you have made before Me; I have hallowed this house which you have built, and I have put My Name [and My Presence] there forever. My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Jehovah said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

Common English Bible

³ The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your cry to me. I have set apart this temple that you built, to put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And the Lord said to him: "I have heard your prayer and your petition, which you prayed before me. I have sanctified this house, which you have built, so that I may place my name there forever, and so that my eyes and my heart will be there for all days.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me. I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.

1 Kings 9:3 Cross References

1 Kings 8:29

that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.

2 Kings 20:5

“Turn back and say to Hezekiah prince of my people: Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; indeed, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 21:7

The carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;

2 Chronicles 33:7

The carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;

2 Chronicles 6:40

Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to prayer from this place.

Ezra 6:12

May the God who has established his name there overthrow any king or people who shall put forth a hand to alter this or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”

Psalm 10:17

O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

Psalm 116:1

I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

Psalm 34:17

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and rescues them from all their troubles.

Psalm 65:3

When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us, you forgive our transgressions.

Psalm 66:19

But truly God has listened; he has heard the words of my prayer.

Exodus 20:11

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

Exodus 29:44

I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are safe!”—only to go on doing all these abominations?

Daniel 9:23

At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly beloved. So consider the word and understand the vision:

Numbers 16:38

For the censers of these sinners have become holy at the cost of their lives. Make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the Israelites.”

Matthew 6:9

“Pray, then, in this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be revered as holy.

John 11:42

I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.”

Acts 10:31

He said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms have been remembered before God.

Deuteronomy 11:12

a land that the Lord your God looks after. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then you shall bring everything that I command you to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, and all your choice votive gifts that you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place where the Lord your God will choose to put his name is too far from you, and you slaughter as I have commanded you any of your herd or flock that the Lord has given you, then you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes as his habitation to put his name there. You shall go there,

Deuteronomy 16:11

Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

1 John 5:14

And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.