Bible Verses About Raising Hands
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for raising hands, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,301 votes, led by Exodus 17:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Raising Hands
Exodus 17:11379 votes
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
1 Timothy 2:8254 votes
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Psalms 134:2233 votes
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
Psalms 28:2232 votes
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Nehemiah 8:6224 votes
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
Psalms 63:4205 votes
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
1 Kings 8:22190 votes
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
Psalms 119:48169 votes
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Psalms 141:2164 votes
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
1 Kings 8:54140 votes
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
Lamentations 3:41137 votes
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Exodus 17:11-1289 votes
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Psalms 143:687 votes
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Isaiah 1:1585 votes
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Lamentations 2:1985 votes
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
2 Chronicles 6:12-1384 votes
And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
Luke 24:5084 votes
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
1 Timothy 2:8-1082 votes
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Ezra 9:554 votes
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God,
Deuteronomy 32:4045 votes
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
1 Kings 8:3843 votes
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
2 Chronicles 6:1321 votes
For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
Psalms 68:3119 votes
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Psalms 88:919 votes
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Psalms 44:2017 votes
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
What does the Bible say about raising hands?
Readers most often cite Exodus 17:11 on the subject of raising hands. Across 3,301 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 2:8, Psalms 134:2, Psalms 28:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.