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27 “But will God truly dwell on the earth? Behold, (A)heaven and the [a]highest heaven cannot [b]contain You; how much less this house which I have built! 28 Yet have regard to the (B)prayer of Your slave and to his supplication, O Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your slave prays before You today; 29 (C)that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward (D)the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your slave shall pray toward this place.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:27 Lit heaven of heavens
  2. 1 Kings 8:27 Or uphold; lit sustain