“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.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.