1 Kings 8:48-50

Living Bible

⁴⁸ if they honestly return to you and pray toward this land that you have given their fathers, and toward this city of Jerusalem that you have chosen, and toward this Temple that I have built for your name, ⁴⁹ hear their prayers and pleadings from heaven where you live, and come to their assistance.

⁵⁰ “Forgive your people for all of their evil deeds, and make their captors merciful to them;