Discovery Box1 Kings 8:27 
Context8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! 1 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
1 Kings 8:32
Context8:32 Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. 2
1 Kings 8:34
Context8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.
1 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.
2 tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”
