If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth 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 set your heart aright, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God.
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.
All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten thee, or been false to thy covenant.
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward 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, that you may know that the earth is the Lord's.
But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall glory; for the mouths of liars will be stopped.