Discovery Box1 Kings 8:38 
Context8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, 1 as they acknowledge their pain 2 and spread out their hands toward this temple,
1 Kings 12:9
Context12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me 3 to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 4
1 tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”
2 tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”
3 tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.
4 tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”
