1 Kings 8:52
Good News Translation
"Sovereign LORD, may you always look with favor on your people Israel and their king, and hear their prayer whenever they call to you for help.

New Revised Standard Version
Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant, and to the plea of your people Israel, listening to them whenever they call to you.

Contemporary English Version
I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So listen when any of us pray and cry out for your help.

New American Bible
“Thus may your eyes be open to the petition of your servant and to the petition of your people Israel; thus may you listen to them whenever they call upon you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall call upon thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall call upon thee.

That thine

1 Kings 8:29 That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:

2 Chronicles 6:40 For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.

in all that

Psalm 86:5 For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

Psalm 145:18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
51For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron. 52That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall call upon thee.53For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance, from amongst all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.…
Cross References
1 Kings 8:29
That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:

1 Kings 8:53
For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance, from amongst all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

1 Kings 8:51
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