Discovery Box1 Kings 8:20 
Context8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. 1 I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor 2 of the Lord God of Israel
1 Kings 8:43
Context8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. 3 Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, 4 obey 5 you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. 6
1 Kings 8:48
Context8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being 7 in the land where they are held prisoner, 8 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, 9
1 Kings 15:23
Context15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 10 Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. 11
1 tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”
2 tn Heb “name.”
3 tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”
4 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
5 tn Heb “fear.”
6 tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.
7 tn Or “soul.”
8 tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”
9 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
10 tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
11 tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”
