Verse 3

1 Kings 9:3

Young's Literal Translation

3 and Jehovah saith unto him, 'I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication with which thou hast made supplication before Me; I have hallowed this house that thou hast built to put My name there -- unto the age, and Mine eyes and My heart have been there all the days.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלָ֗י/ו שָׁ֠מַעְתִּי אֶת תְּפִלָּתְ/ךָ֣ וְ/אֶת תְּחִנָּתְ/ךָ֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִתְחַנַּ֣נְתָּה לְ/פָנַ/י֒ הִקְדַּ֗שְׁתִּי אֶת הַ/בַּ֤יִת הַ/זֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּנִ֔תָה לָ/שֽׂוּם שְׁמִ֥/י שָׁ֖ם עַד עוֹלָ֑ם וְ/הָי֨וּ עֵינַ֧/י וְ/לִבִּ֛/י שָׁ֖ם כָּל הַ/יָּמִֽים
English Translation
And the LORD said to me, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built to put my name there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days."
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Chapter 9 Context
1 And it cometh to pass, at Solomon's finishing to build the house of Jehovah, and the house of the ki... Focus ↗
2 that Jehovah appeareth unto Solomon a second time, as He appeared unto him in Gibeon, Focus ↗
3 and Jehovah saith unto him, 'I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication with which thou hast made...
4 'And thou -- if thou dost walk before Me as David thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in... Focus ↗
5 then I have established the throne of thy kingdom over Israel -- to the age, as I spake unto David t... Focus ↗
6 'If ye at all turn back -- you and your sons -- from after Me, and keep not My commands -- My statut... Focus ↗
7 then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that... Focus ↗
8 as to this house, [that] is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they h... Focus ↗
9 and they have said, Because that they have forsaken Jehovah their God (Elohim), who brought out thei... Focus ↗
10 And it cometh to pass, at the end of twenty years, that Solomon hath built the two houses, the house... Focus ↗
11 Hiram king of Tyre hath assisted Solomon with cedar-trees, and with fir-trees, and with gold, accord... Focus ↗
12 And Hiram cometh out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon hath given to him, and they have not b... Focus ↗
13 and he saith, 'What [are] these cities that thou hast given to me, my brother?' and one calleth them... Focus ↗
14 And Hiram sendeth to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold. Focus ↗
15 And this [is] the matter of the tribute that king Solomon hath lifted up, to build the house of Jeho... Focus ↗
16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt hath gone up and doth capture Gezer, and doth burn it with fire, and the Cana... Focus ↗
17 And Solomon buildeth Gezer, and Beth-Horon the lower, Focus ↗
18 and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land; Focus ↗
19 and all the cities of stores that king Solomon hath, and the cities of the chariots, and the cities... Focus ↗
20 The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the... Focus ↗
21 their sons who are left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel have not been able to devot... Focus ↗
22 And out of the sons of Israel Solomon hath not appointed a servant, for they [are] the men of war, a... Focus ↗
23 These [are] the heads of the officers who [are] over the work of Solomon, fifty and five hundred, th... Focus ↗
24 Only, the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David unto her house that [Solomon] built f... Focus ↗
25 And Solomon caused to ascend, three times in a year, burnt-offerings and peace-offerings on the alta... Focus ↗
26 And a navy hath king Solomon made in Ezion-Geber, that is beside Eloth, on the edge of the Sea of Su... Focus ↗
27 And Hiram sendeth in the navy his servants, shipmen knowing the sea, with servants of Solomon, Focus ↗
28 and they come in to Ophir and take thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and bring [it] in u... Focus ↗