What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
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Gill's Exposition
What prayer and supplication soever,.... On account of any of the above things, or any other:
be made by any man, or by all the people Israel; by a private man, for such an one might go to the…
Barnes' Notes
Know every man the plague of his own heart - i. e. perceive one’s sinfulness, or recognize one’s sufferings as divine chastisements, and sin as their cause.
Solomon having made a general surrender of this house to God, which God had signified his acceptance of by taking possession, next follows Solomon's prayer, in which he makes a more particular…
Cambridge Bible
which shall know every man the plague of his own heart i.e. The special infliction which is sent to him for his own correction, and for the relief of which he only can fitly pray.
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