⁸ They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary^(A) for your Name, saying, ⁹ ‘If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine,^(B) we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.’

⁴⁴ “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray^(A) to the Lord toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name, ⁴⁵ then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.^(B)