1 Kings 9:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

I have heard

I have hallowed

To put

1 Kings 8:29

Deuteronomy 12:5

Deuteronomy 16:11

Mine eyes

Bible References

I have heard

“Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear

But certainly God has heard;
He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

I love the Lord, because He hears

My voice and my supplications.

At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are

highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.

I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”

and he *said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

I have hallowed

It happened that when the priests came from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.”

“Pray, then, in this way:
‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.

To put

that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.

and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.

Mine eyes

a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.

“Now, O my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.

“You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride;
You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes,
With a single strand of your necklace.

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!