1 Kings 8:49
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Then hear thou their prayers, and their supplication, in heaven thy dwellingplace,.... For their deliverance out of captivity: and maintain their cause; plead it, and do them justice, avenge their…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
and maintain their cause The words are the same as in 1Ki 8:45, but the idea is a little different. There the -cause" was a righteous war undertaken at God's direction; here the phrase implies that…