14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. …
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. …
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)That God accepted Solomon’s prayer appeared by the fire from heaven. But a prayer may be accepted and yet not answered in the letter of it; and therefore God appeared to him in the night, as he did once before (2 Chron. 1:7), and after a day of sacrifice too, as then, and gave him a peculiar answer to his prayer. We had the substance of it before, 1 Kgs. 9:2-9. I. He promised to own this house for…
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