29Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
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And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. …
And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: …
Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. …
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-41)Solomon had, in the foregoing verses, signed and sealed, as it were, the deed of dedication, by which the temple was appropriated to the honour and service of God. Now here he prays the consecration-prayer, by which it was made a figure of Christ, the great Mediator, through whom we are to offer all our prayers, and to expect all God’s favours, and to whom we are to have an eye in every thing wher…
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