1 Kings 8:46 (DBY)

Passage

If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;

Nearby Context

1 Kings 8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray to Jehovah toward the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

1 Kings 8:45 then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.

1 Kings 8:46 If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;

1 Kings 8:47 and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done iniquity, we have dealt perversely;

1 Kings 8:48 and if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sinned", "against", "thee", "sinneth", "thou", "angry", "give", and "enemy". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sinned" and "against", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 45's "then hear thou in the heavens their..." into verse 47's "and if they shall take it to...", so "sinned" and "against" belong inside that flow. In 1 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sinned" and "against" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.