1 Kings 8:22

Solomon Prays for Israel

8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. ¹ 

1 Kings 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! ²  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 18:38

18:38 Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. ³  It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.

1 Kings 18:45

18:45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward ⁴  Jezreel.

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¹ tn Or “heaven.”

² tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

³ tn The words “from the sky” are added for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “rode and went to.”