1 Kings 8:29

That thine eyes may be open [This anthropomorphism does not conflict with what was said under 1 Kings 8:27 ] toward this house night and day [not so much to watch over it as to see the worship and prayer offered there], even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there [cf. Ezekiel 48:35 , and Ezekiel 48:18 , Ezekiel 48:19 , Ezekiel 48:20 , etc. When had God said this? Never perhaps, in so many words. Keil says the reference is to 2 Samuel 7:13 implicite ("He shall build an house for my name"), while Rawlinson thinks the "reference is not to any single text, but to the many passages in Deuteronomy where God speaks of a place which He will choose to 'set his name' there ( Deuteronomy 12:5 , Deuteronomy 12:11 , Deuteronomy 12:18 , etc.; Deuteronomy 14:23 ; Deuteronomy 15:20 ; Deuteronomy 16:2 , etc.) " But it is very probable that a revelation was made to David respecting the sanctuary, the terms of which are not preserved to us. This is almost implied by Psalms 78:68 ; Psalms 132:10 ; 1 Chronicles 22:1 —passages which prove that David claimed to have Divine sanction for placing the temple on "Mount Zion." Psalms 132:1-18 , is unmistakeably Davidic, and embodies some features of the message of God ( e . g ; the condition, Psalms 132:12 ) not preserved in 2 Samuel 7:1-29 .]: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward [Marg. in, but Heb. אֵל . supports the A.V. rendering. Now that God had revealed His presence in the temple, the Jew, wherever he might be, would, and as a matter of fact did, pray towards it ( Daniel 6:10 ; Psalms 5:7 ; Jonah 2:4 ), just as the Mohammedan has his Kibleh in Mecca] this place.