Discovery Box1 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 Kings 8:36
Context8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly 1 you will then teach them the right way to live 2 and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. 3
1 Kings 8:39
Context8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 4 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 5 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 6
1 tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.
2 tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”
3 tn Or “for an inheritance.”
4 tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
5 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.
6 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
