Discovery Box1 Kings 8:28-29 
Context8:28 But respond favorably to 1 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 2 the desperate prayer 3 your servant is presenting to you 4 today. 8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. 5 May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 6
1 tn Heb “turn to.”
2 tn Heb “by listening to.”
3 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
4 tn Heb “praying before you.”
5 tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”
6 tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”
