1 Kings 8:38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

Prayer

The plague

Spread forth

1 Kings 8:22

Isaiah 1:15

General references

Leviticus 13:29

Bible References

Prayer

And Jehoshaphat will stand in the convocation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah before the new enclosure.

And call upon me in the day of straits: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honor me.

He shall call me and I will answer him: I am with him in straits; I will deliver him and honor him.

Perhaps Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh whom his lord the king of Assur sent him to reproach the living God, and judge upon the words which Jehovah thy God heard; and lift thou up a prayer for the remnant being found.

Between the porch and to the altar the priests serving Jehovah shall weep, and they shall say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and thou wilt not give thine inheritance to reproach for the nations to rule over them: wherefore shall they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Thus the Lord Jehovah caused me to see; and behold, he will form locusts in the beginning of the coming up of the latter grass; and behold, the latter grass after the moorings of the king.

The plague

Every prayer, every supplication which shall be to every man, and to all thy people Israel, when each shall know his strobe and his griefs, and spreading forth his hands to this house;

Also I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the straitness of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

O my God, my soul will be bowed down upon me: for this I will remember from the land of Jordan and the Hermonites, from the mountain of smallness

For my heart will be embittered, and my loins were hard.

In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me.

The heart will know the bitterness of its soul, and in its joys the stranger shall not mingle.

I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death?

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God.

Spread forth

And Solomon will stand at the face of the altar of Jehovah before all the convocation of Israel, and he will spread forth his hands to the heavens:

And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.

General references

And when a man or woman there shall be in him a stroke upon the head, or in the beard;