8:35,36
Next is the case where there is no rain “because your people have sinned against you”. Again, it looks forward to the time when they turn back to God and repent of their sins “because you have afflicted”. We need to face up to the fact that sometimes God does afflict people because of their sin. The result asked for here is God sending rain back to the land.
8:37-40
Next come plagues, or an enemy besieging the cities. It then becomes even more general, “whatever disease or disaster may come”. Yet again Solomon asks God to hear their plea when they turn back to God and His temple, asking for help. Solomon recognises that God alone knows the hearts of all men. The goal is that the people fear the Lord (which is equivalent to knowing the Lord) and will live in the “land you gave our ancestors”. All the requests look to seeing God’s purposes being fulfilled.
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