1 Kings 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ¹  as they acknowledge their pain ²  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

1 Kings 12:9

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me ³  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

² tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

³ tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

⁴ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”