If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a strange god,
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
“If you direct your heart rightly, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Cush hasten to stretch out its hands to God.
Do not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who are all around you,
They forgot what he had done and the miracles that he had shown them.
All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you or been false to your covenant.
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands to heaven.
Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.
But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.