1 KINGS 8:49 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,”
This final petition in the sequence assures that prayers made from exile toward the temple will be heard by God from His heavenly dwelling, maintaining continuity of relationship across the rupture of displacement. Solomon establishes that the vertical axis from displaced Israel through the temple to God's heavenly throne provides an unbroken channel for covenant communication even in catastrophe. The phrase
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