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

Micah 4:2

The good way

Give rain

General references

Jeremiah 42:3

Bible References

Thou teach

Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way, because of my haters.

I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

O Lord, let me see the way of your rules, and I will keep it to the end.

And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

The good way

And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.

And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

Give rain

Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.

You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.

General references

That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.