1Ki 8:33-46, 9:6-9 | ESV | STEP | When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house ,

1 Kings 8:33-46

33 ^a“When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and ^bif they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, 34 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.

35 ^c“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, 36 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when ^dyou teach them ^ethe good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

37 ^f“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac in any of their cities} whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 38 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, 39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ( ^hfor you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), 40 that they may fear you ⁱall the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.

41 “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name’s sake 42 (for they shall hear of your great name ^jand your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house, 43 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order ^kthat all the peoples of the earth may know your name and ^lfear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.

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

46 “If they sin against you— ⁿfor 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 ^oto the land of the enemy, far off or near,

1 Kings 9:6-9

6 ^pBut if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 ^qthen I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, ^rand the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, ^sand Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 And this house will become a heap of ruins. ^{▼▼Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew will become high} Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ^u‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 9 Then they will say, ‘Because ^vthey abandoned the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this disaster on them.’”