Pray Towards The Location Of Yahweh's House In Jerusalem To Facilitate Your Forgiveness By Yahweh
1 Kings 8:30 reads,
8:30
Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive.
Actions The People Of Israel And Others Should Take To Facilitate Their Forgiveness By Yahweh
1 Kings 8:33-36, 46-53 reads,
8:33
When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house: 8:34then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. 8:35When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them: 8:36then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.8:37
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be; 8:38whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 8:39then hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;) 8:40that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.8:46
If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; 8:47yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; 8:48if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: 8:49then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause; 8:50and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 8:51(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); 8:52that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. 8:53For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.
Yahweh Does Not Forgive For Unaccounted For Sin
2 Kings 24:1-4 reads,
24:1
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 24:2Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets. 24:3Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.Yahweh does not always pardon for sin, especially when those who sin do not repent of their sins.
Humble Yourself, Pray, Seek Yahweh's Face And Turn From Sin That Yahweh May Forgive You
2 Chronicles 7:12-16 reads,
7:12
Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 7:13If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 7:14if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 7:15Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. 7:16For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
Set Your Heart To Seek Yahweh That He May Forgive And Heal You
2 Chronicles 30:15-20 reads,
30:15
Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh. 30:16They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites. 30:17For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh. 30:18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone 30:19who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. 30:20Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.We should set our hearts to seek Yahweh, for then he will forgive us our sins and heal us.
Yahweh Is A Mighty One Ready To Pardon
Nehemiah 9:16-17 reads,
9:16
But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and didn’t listen to your commandments, 9:17and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and didn’t forsake them.
Seek Yahweh's Forgiveness For Hidden Errors
Psalm 19:12-14 reads,
19:12
Who can discern his errors?19:13
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.Then I will be upright,
I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Seek Yahweh's Forgiveness For His Name's Sake
Psalm 25:11, 15-18 reads,
25:11
For your name’s sake, Yahweh,25:15
My eyes are ever on Yahweh,25:16
Turn to me, and have mercy on me,25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged.25:18
Consider my affliction and my travail.
Confess Your Transgressions To Yahweh That He May Forgive You
Psalm 32:1-7 reads,
By David. A contemplative psalm.
32:1
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,32:2
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity,32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me.Selah.
32:5
I acknowledged my sin to you.I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh,
And you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Selah.
32:6
For this, let everyone that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found.32:7
You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble.Selah.
Seek Yahweh's Deliverance And Forgiveness For The Glory Of His Name
Psalm 79:8-13 reads,
79:8
Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.79:9
Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.79:10
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.79:12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom79:13
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
Yahweh Covers Or Forgives The Iniquity Of His People
Psalm 85:1-2 reads,
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
85:1
Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land.85:2
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.Selah.
Yahweh Is Good And Ready To Forgive
Psalm 86:1-5 reads,
A Prayer by David.
86:1
Hear, Yahweh, and answer me,86:2
Preserve my soul, for I am godly.86:3
Be merciful to me, Lord,86:4
Bring joy to the soul of your servant,86:5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive;
Yahweh Forgives Sin, Heals Diseases And Redeems From Destruction
Psalm 103:1-5 reads,
By David.
103:1
Praise Yahweh, my soul!103:2
Praise Yahweh, my soul,103:3
Who forgives all your sins;103:4
Who redeems your life from destruction;103:5
Who satisfies your desire with good things,
Psalm 130:1-4 reads,
A Song of Ascents.
130:1
Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.130:2
Lord, hear my voice.130:3
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins,130:4
But there is forgiveness with you,
Yahweh Forgave Isaiah's Sin When The Latter Declared It
Isaiah 6:1-7 reads,
6:1
In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. 6:2Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. 6:3One called to another, and said,"Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Hosts!
The whole earth is full of his glory!"
6:4
The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 6:5Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!"6:6
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 6:7He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."When Isaiah declared his sin, Yahweh forgave him. We should likewise follow Isaiah's example, and declare our sins before Yahweh, that Yahweh may forgive us.
Forsake Wickedness And Unrighteousness And Return To Yahweh For His Mercy
Isaiah 55:6-9 reads,
55:6
Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 55:7let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh. 55:9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Do Justice And Seek Truth That Yahweh May Pardon You
Jeremiah 5:1-9 reads,
5:1
Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her. 5:2Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely. 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don’t know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God: 5:5I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 5:6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased. 5:7How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. 5:8They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife. 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?To receive Yahweh's pardon we must indeed repent of our iniquities.
Yahweh Will In Future Forgive The Houses Of Israel And Judah
Jeremiah 31:31-34 reads,
31:31
Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 31:32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh. 31:33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
Forgiveness Of Sin Is The Same As Cleansing From Sin
Jeremiah 33:7-8 reads,
33:7
I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. 33:8I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.Pardoning of iniquities is equivalent to being cleansed from iniquities.
Be Aware Of The Penalties For Sins Against Yahweh That You May Consider Doing Righteousness And Secure Yahweh's Forgiveness
Jeremiah 36:1-3 reads,
36:1
It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 36:2Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. 36:3It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.Yahweh forgives us our sins when we turn away from our evil ways and do righteousness. And he speaks to us his words, including the impending penalties he will inflict upon us on account of our sins, that we may take heed and repent of those sins, that he may pardon us.
Forgiveness Is Spiritual Cleansing
Jeremiah 50:20 reads,
50:20
In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.Those who have been pardoned are spiritually clean, for forgiveness is spiritual cleansing.
We Should Be Ashamed Of Our Sins
Ezekiel 16:59-63 reads,
16:59
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 16:60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. 16:61Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. 16:62I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; 16:63that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.When Yahweh forgives us our sins we should understand the gravity of both our sins and their forgiveness, and be meekly quiet in Yahweh's presence, never to lift ourselves up again.
Daniel Sought Yahweh's Forgiveness For Yahweh's Own Sake
Daniel 9:19-21 reads,
9:19
Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name. 9:20While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God; 9:21yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
Micah 7:18-20 reads,
7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
Because he delights in lovingkindness.
7:19
He will again have compassion on us.7:20
You will give truth to Jacob,
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