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1 Kings 8:22

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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

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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

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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

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

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.”



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