1 Kings 8:30

8:30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place.¹ Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place² and respond favorably.³

1 Kings 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,⁴ as they acknowledge their pain⁵ and spread out their hands toward this temple,

1 Kings 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies,⁶ and they direct their prayers to the Lord⁷ toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,⁸

1 Kings 8:48-50

8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being⁹ in the land where they are held prisoner,¹⁰ and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,¹¹ 8:49 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help¹² and vindicate them.¹³ 8:50 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them.¹⁴

¹tn Heb “listen to the request of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

²tn Heb “and you, hear inside your dwelling place, inside heaven.” The precise nuance of the preposition אֶל (’el), used here with the verb “hear,” is unclear. One expects the preposition “from,” which appears in the parallel text in 2 Chr 6:21. The nuance “inside; among” is attested for אֶל (see Gen 23:19; 1 Sam 10:22; Jer 4:3), but in each case a verb of motion is employed with the preposition, unlike 1 Kgs 8:30. The translation above (“from inside”) is based on the demands of the immediate context rather than attested usage elsewhere.

³tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

⁴tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

⁵tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

⁶tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

⁷tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

⁸tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

⁹tn Or “soul.”

¹⁰tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”

¹¹tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

¹²tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

¹³tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and forgive your people who have sinned against you, [forgive] all their rebellious acts by which they rebelled against you, and grant them mercy before their captors so they will show them mercy.”