2 Chronicles 6:13

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

if 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;

He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way.”

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.

Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.

Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.

They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, and saying,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”

He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed,

When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,