1 Kings 8:45

A Conservative Version

then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Cross References

Psalm 9:4

For thou have maintained my right and my cause. Thou sit in the throne judging righteously.

Genesis 18:25

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown fat. They shine. Yea, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.

1 Kings 8:44

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way thou shall send them, and they pray to LORD toward the city which thou have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name,

1 Kings 8:46

If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, afar off or near,

Psalm 140:12

I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.