1 Kings 9:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD said: I heard your prayer and what you asked me to do. This temple you have built is where I will be worshipped for ever. It belongs to me, and I will never stop watching over it.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:29

This is the temple where you have chosen to be worshipped. Please watch over it day and night and listen when I turn towards it and pray.

2 Kings 20:5

the LORD sent him back to Hezekiah with this message: Hezekiah, you are the ruler of my people, and I am the LORD God, who was worshipped by your ancestor David. I heard you pray, and I saw you cry. I will heal you, so that three days from now you will be able to worship in my temple.

2 Chronicles 6:40

LORD God, hear us when we pray in this temple.

Ezra 6:12

I ask the God who is worshipped in Jerusalem to destroy any king or nation who tries either to change what I have said or to tear down his temple. I, Darius, give these orders, and I expect them to be followed carefully.

Psalm 10:17

You listen to the longings of those who suffer. You offer them hope, and you pay attention to their cries for help.

Psalm 116:1

I love you, LORD! You answered my prayers.

Psalm 34:17

When his people pray for help, he listens and rescues them from their troubles.

Psalm 65:3

Our terrible sins get us down, but you forgive us.

Psalm 66:19

But God did listen and answered my prayer.

Exodus 20:11

In six days I made the sky, the earth, the seas, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That's why I made the Sabbath a special day that belongs to me.

Exodus 29:44

Because of who I am, the tent will become sacred, and Aaron and his sons will become worthy to serve as my priests.

Jeremiah 15:1

The LORD said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel were here, praying with you, I wouldn't change my mind. So send the people of Judah away.

Jeremiah 7:10

And then you come into my temple and worship me! Do you think I will protect you so that you can go on sinning?

Daniel 9:23

God thinks highly of you, and at the very moment you started praying, I was sent to give you the answer.

Numbers 16:38

because they were used for offering incense to me. Have them hammered into a thin layer of bronze as a covering for the altar. Those men died because of their sin, and now their fire pans will become a warning for the rest of the community.”

Matthew 6:9

You should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, help us to honour your name.

John 11:42

I know that you always answer my prayers. But I said this, so that the people here would believe that you sent me.”

Acts 10:31

He said, “Cornelius, God has heard your prayers, and he knows about your gifts to the poor.

Deuteronomy 11:12

because the LORD your God keeps his eye on this land and takes care of it all year long.

Deuteronomy 12:5

Soon you will cross the Jordan, and the LORD will help you conquer your enemies and let you live in peace, there in the land he has given you. But after you are settled, life will be different. You must not offer sacrifices anywhere you want to. Instead, the LORD will choose a place somewhere in Israel where you must go to worship him. All your sacrifices and offerings must be taken there, including sacrifices to please the LORD and any gift you promise or voluntarily give him. That's where you must also take one tenth of your grain, wine, and olive oil, as well as the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats. You and your family and servants will eat your gifts and sacrifices and celebrate there at the place of worship, because the LORD your God has made you successful in everything you have done. And since Levites will not have any land of their own, you must ask some of them to come along and celebrate with you. Sometimes you may want to kill an animal for food and not as a sacrifice. If the LORD has blessed you and given you enough cows or sheep or goats, then you can butcher one of them where you live. You can eat it just like the meat from a deer or gazelle that you kill when you go hunting. And even those people who are unclean and unfit for worship can have some of the meat. But you must not eat the blood of any animal—let the blood drain out on the ground.

1 John 5:14

We are certain that God will hear our prayers when we ask for what pleases him.