Discovery Box1 Kings 8:28 
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.
1 Kings 8:39
Context8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 5 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 6 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 7
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 The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
6 tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.
7 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
