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1 Kings 8:38

King James Version (KJV)

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1 Kings 8:38

Verse 38 of 66

Scripture focus

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:

1 Kings 8:38 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Kings 8:38

Theological / Devotional

Plague. For every man to know the “plague of his own heart” is for him to recognize his sinfulness and the part that it has had in bringing about the woes that are making the land desolate. The plague in the land has its origin in the plague of the heart.

It is the plague of sin that is the true plague, the basic cause of all other plagues. Unless the evils of sin are recognized, and unless sin is put away, there is no hope of dealing with the many other ills that are plaguing the world and threatening to reduce it to a desolate ruin.

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