1 Kings 8:36

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

Thou teach

The good way

Give rain

General references

Jeremiah 42:3

Bible References

Thou teach

Make Your ways known to me, Lord;
teach me Your paths.

Because of my adversaries,
show me Your way, Lord,
and lead me on a level path.

I will instruct you and show you the way to go;
with My eye on you, I will give counsel.

Lord, happy is the man You discipline
and teach from Your law

ה HeTeach me, Lord, the meaning of Your statutes,
and I will always keep them.

Let me experience
Your faithful love in the morning,
for I trust in You.
Reveal to me the way I should go
because I long for You.

A road will be there and a way;
it will be called the Holy Way.
The unclean will not travel on it,
but it will be for the one who walks the path.
Even the fool will not go astray.

and many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us about His ways
so we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction will go out of Zion
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

The good way

“As for me, I vow that I will not sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. I will teach you the good and right way.

When the skies are shut and there is no rain
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting

them,

and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

This is what the Lord says:

Stand by the roadways and look.
Ask about the ancient paths:
Which is the way to what is good?
Then take it
and find rest for yourselves.
But they protested, “We won’t!”

that the Lord your God may tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”

They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality.

Give rain

After a long time, the word of the Lord

came to Elijah in the third year: “Go and present yourself to Ahab. I will send rain on the surface of the land.”

You, God, showered abundant rain;
You revived Your inheritance when it languished.

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?
Or can the skies alone give showers?
Are You not the Lord our God?
We therefore put our hope in You,
for You have done all these things.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

General references

that the Lord your God may tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”