1 Kings 8:29-30

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 8:30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably.

1 Kings 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

1 Kings 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,