so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day, towards the place where you said, ‘My name will be there,’ and so that you may hear the prayer that your servant prays towards this place.
1 Kings 9:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The Lord said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day, towards the place where you said, ‘My name will be there,’ and so that you may hear the prayer that your servant prays towards this place.
‘Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the Lord’s temple.
Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: ‘I will establish my name for ever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s temple that God had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: ‘I will establish my name for ever , in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
Now, my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
May the God who caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who dares to harm or interfere with this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out diligently.
For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.
I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before me, my heart would not go out to these people. Send them from my presence, and let them go.
Then do you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say, ‘We are rescued, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts’?
At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God. , So consider the message and understand the vision:
As for the firepans of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered sheets as plating for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord, and the firepans are holy. They will be a sign to the Israelites.’
‘Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honoured as holy.
I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent me.’
and said, “Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your acts of charity have been remembered in God’s sight.
It is a land the Lord your God cares for. He is always watching over it from the beginning to the end of the year.
then the Lord your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.
If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock he has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your city gates whenever you want.
Instead, turn to the place the Lord your God chooses from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.
Rejoice before the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell #– #you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.
This is the confidence we have before him: If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.