1 Kings 9:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

I have heard

I have hallowed

To put

1 Kings 8:29

Deuteronomy 12:5

Deuteronomy 16:11

Mine eyes

Jeremiah 15:1

Bible References

I have heard

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.

At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.

I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

I have hallowed

Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives have made payment for their sin, be hammered out into plates as a cover for the altar; for they have been offered before the Lord and are holy; so that they may be a sign to the children of Israel.

Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

To put

That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

Mine eyes

A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.

Now, O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.