Text -- 1 Kings 8:43 (NET)

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ki 8:43

¹ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

² tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

³ tn Heb “fear.”

⁴ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.