1 Kings 8:52 (LSB)

Passage

that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your slave and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You.

Nearby Context

1 Kings 8:50 and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and give them over as objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them

1 Kings 8:51 (for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace),

1 Kings 8:52 that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your slave and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You.

1 Kings 8:53 For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord Yahweh.”

1 Kings 8:54 Now it happened that when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "eyes", "open", "supplication", "slave", "people", "israel", and "listen". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "eyes" and "open", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 51's "for they are Your people and Your..." into verse 53's "For You have separated them from all...", so "eyes" and "open" 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 "eyes" and "open" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.