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1 Kings 8:42-44
International Children’s Bible
1 Kings 8:42-44
International Children’s Bible
41-42 “People who are not Israelites, who come from other lands, will hear about your greatness and power. They will come from far away to pray at this Temple. 43 Please hear their prayers from your home in heaven. Please do whatever they ask you. Then people everywhere will know you and respect you, as your people in Israel do. Then everyone will know I built this Temple for worship to you.
44 “Sometimes you will command your people to go and fight against their enemies. Then your people will pray to you facing this city which you have chosen. They will pray facing the Temple I have built for your worship.
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1 Kings 8:42-44
New International Version
1 Kings 8:42-44
New International Version
42 for they will hear(A) of your great name and your mighty hand(B) and your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple, 43 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know(C) your name and fear(D) you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.(E)
44 “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray(F) to the Lord toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,
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