1 Kings 8:45 (GNV)

Passage

Heare thou then in heauen their prayer and their supplication, and iudge their cause.

Nearby Context

1 Kings 8:43 Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth for vnto thee: that all the people of the earth may know thy Name, and feare thee, as do thy people Israel: and that they may know, that thy Name is called vpon in this house which I haue built.

1 Kings 8:44 When thy people shall go out to battell against their enemie by the way that thou shalt sende them, and shall pray vnto the Lord towarde the way of the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I haue built for thy Name,

1 Kings 8:45 Heare thou then in heauen their prayer and their supplication, and iudge their cause.

1 Kings 8:46 If they sinne against thee, ( for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliuer them vnto the enemies, so that they cary them away prisoners vnto the land of the enemies, either farre or neere,

1 Kings 8:47 Yet if they turne againe vnto their heart in the lande (to the which they be caryed away captiues) and returne and pray vnto thee in the lande of them that caryed them away captiues, saying, We haue sinned, we haue transgressed, and done wickedly,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "heare", "thou", "heauen", "prayer", "supplication", "iudge", and "cause". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "heare" and "thou", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 44's "When thy people shall go out to..." into verse 46's "If they sinne against thee for there...", so "heare" and "thou" 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 "heare" and "thou" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.