1 Kings 8:44–49

⁴⁴“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord ⁱtoward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, ⁴⁵then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.

⁴⁶“If they sin against you—^jfor there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive ^kto the land of the enemy, far off or near, ⁴⁷yet ^lif they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ^m‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ ⁴⁸ⁿif they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you ^otoward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, ⁴⁹then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause