Discovery Box1 Kings 8:58 
Context8:58 May he make us submissive, 1 so we can follow all his instructions 2 and obey 3 the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.
1 Kings 12:9
Context12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me 4 to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 5
1 tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the
2 tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”
3 tn Heb “keep.”
4 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.
5 tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”
