OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 8:38

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whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

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Verse 38. Heart: his offence. Septuagint αφην, “touching, or compunction.” Bible.—Let a man go to the source of the evil, and be sorry for his sins. Calmet.

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