then 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;)
⛓ Read 1 Kings 8 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Solomon prays that God, who 'alone knows the hearts of all the children of men,' will render to each accordingly. This explicit claim that God alone knows every heart underlies 'God... knows all things.' The heart-knowing God before whom we are persuaded is drawn from this temple prayer.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Solomon's prayer addresses God who alone 'knows the hearts of all the children of men'; a recurrent OT divine epithet standing behind Peter's heart-knowing God who reads Gentile faith. Recurrence test supports the motif.
Medium confidenceSolomon's temple prayer affirms that God alone 'knows the hearts of all the children of mankind.' Set against the temple context just preceding (2:13-22), Jesus' knowledge of all hearts pointedly claims the prerogative Solomon reserved to God alone, reinforcing the divine-knowledge Christology. Coherence with the chapter's temple frame strengthens it.
Medium confidence