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 8:52
Context8:52 “May you be attentive 3 to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. 4
1 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” 5
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 Heb “May your eyes be open.”
4 tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”
5 tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”
