Psalm 28:2
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2 Listen to my prayer for mercy
as I cry out to you for help,
as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
Psalm 138:2
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2 I bow before your holy Temple as I worship.
I praise your name for your unfailing love and faithfulness;
for your promises are backed
by all the honor of your name.
Psalm 141:2
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2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
1 Timothy 2:8
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8 In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.
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Psalm 140:6
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6 I said to the Lord, “You are my God!”
Listen, O Lord, to my cries for mercy!
Psalm 134:2
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2 Lift your hands toward the sanctuary,
and praise the Lord.
Psalm 5:7
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7 Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house;
I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe.
Daniel 6:10
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10 But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.
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Lamentations 2:19
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19 Rise during the night and cry out.
Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord.
Lift up your hands to him in prayer,
pleading for your children,
for in every street
they are faint with hunger.
Psalm 143:6
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6 I lift my hands to you in prayer.
I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude
Psalm 125:5
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5 But banish those who turn to crooked ways, O Lord.
Take them away with those who do evil.
May Israel have peace!
Psalm 63:4
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4 I will praise you as long as I live,
lifting up my hands to you in prayer.
2 Chronicles 6:13
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13 Now Solomon had made a bronze platform 7 1⁄2 feet long, 7 1⁄2 feet wide, and 4 1⁄2 feet high[a] and had placed it at the center of the Temple’s outer courtyard. He stood on the platform, and then he knelt in front of the entire community of Israel and lifted his hands toward heaven.
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- 6:13 Hebrew 5 cubits [2.3 meters] long, 5 cubits wide, and 3 cubits [1.4 meters] high.
1 Kings 8:38
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38 and if your people Israel pray about their troubles, raising their hands toward this Temple,
1 Kings 8:28-30
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28 Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you today. 29 May you watch over this Temple night and day, this place where you have said, ‘My name will be there.’ May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place. 30 May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.
1 Kings 8:6-8
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6 Then the priests carried the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant into the inner sanctuary of the Temple—the Most Holy Place—and placed it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 7 The cherubim spread their wings over the Ark, forming a canopy over the Ark and its carrying poles. 8 These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place, which is in front of the Most Holy Place, but not from the outside. They are still there to this day.
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1 Kings 6:22-23
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22 So he finished overlaying the entire Temple with gold, including the altar that belonged to the Most Holy Place.
23 He made two cherubim of wild olive[a] wood, each 15 feet[b] tall, and placed them in the inner sanctuary.
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1 Kings 6:19
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19 He prepared the inner sanctuary at the far end of the Temple, where the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant would be placed.
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