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Prophets and Kings
people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear Thou
from Thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when Thou hearest,
forgive....
“If Thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because
they have sinned against Thee; and shall return and confess Thy name,
and pray and make supplication before Thee in this house; then hear
Thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of Thy people Israel, and
bring them again unto the land which Thou gavest to them and to their
fathers.
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“When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against Thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and
confess Thy name, and turn from their sin, when Thou dost afflict
them; then hear Thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of Thy servants,
and of Thy people Israel, when Thou hast taught them the good way,
wherein they should walk; and send rain upon Thy land, which Thou
hast given unto Thy people for an inheritance.
“If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be
blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege
them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness
there be: then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made
of any man, or of all Thy people Israel, when everyone shall know
his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in his
house: then hear Thou from heaven Thy dwelling place, and forgive,
and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart
Thou knowest; ... that they may fear Thee, to walk in Thy ways, so
long as they live in the land which Thou gavest unto our fathers.
“Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of Thy people
Israel, but is come from a far country for Thy great name’s sake, and
Thy mighty hand, and Thy stretched-out arm; if they come and pray in
this house; then hear Thou from the heavens, even from Thy dwelling
place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to Thee for; that
all people of the earth may know Thy name, and fear Thee, as doth
Thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is
called by Thy name.
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“If Thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that
Thou shalt send them, and they pray unto Thee toward this city which
Thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for Thy name; then