Logos Bible Study

1 Kings 8:43

The NET BibleOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

8:43Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners.75 Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation,76 obey77 you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.78

Read in Logos

Footnotes

  1. 75 Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”
  2. 76 Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. .
  3. 77 Heb “fear.”
  4. 78 Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,

and do according to all the foreigner asks.

Then all peoples of earth will know your name,

to fear you as your people Israel do

and to know that this temple I have built

bears your name.

NLTNew Living Translation

then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built.

KJV 1900King James Version

Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.