Psalms 28:2 Cross References

Psalms 28:2

2: Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

I bow before your holy Temple as I worship. I will give thanks to your name for your unfailing love and faithfulness, because your promises are backed by all the honor of your name.

So wherever you assemble, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.

Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house; with deepest awe I will worship at your Temple.

Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.

Listen to my prayer and my request, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you today.
May you watch over this Temple both day and night, this place where you have said you would put your name. May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place.
May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.

Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer. Plead for your children as they faint with hunger in the streets.

Then the priests carried the Ark of the LORD's covenant into the inner sanctuary of the Temple--the Most Holy Place--and placed it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
The cherubim spread their wings over the Ark, forming a canopy over the Ark and its carrying poles.
These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the front entrance of the Temple's main room--the Holy Place--but not from outside it. They are still there to this day.

Solomon prepared the inner sanctuary in the rear of the Temple, where the Ark of the LORD's covenant would be placed.

He had made a bronze platform 7 1/2 feet long, 7 1/2 feet wide, and 4 1/2 feet high and had placed it at the center of the Temple's outer courtyard. He stood on the platform before the entire assembly, and then he knelt down and lifted his hands toward heaven.

But banish those who turn to crooked ways, O LORD. Take them away with those who do evil. And let Israel have quietness and peace.

So he finished overlaying the entire Temple with gold, including the altar that belonged to the Most Holy Place.
Within the inner sanctuary Solomon placed two cherubim made of olive wood, each 15 feet tall.

and if your people offer a prayer concerning their troubles or sorrow, raising their hands toward this Temple,

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