8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. 1
20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely 2 if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 3
1 tn Or “toward heaven.”
2 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
3 tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”