8:35 “The time will come when 10 the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people 11 sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, 12 and turn away from their sin because you punish 13 them,
8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 14 and they direct their prayers to the Lord 15 toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 16
8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. 17
18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 18 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.
1 tn Or “kingship.”
2 tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”
3 tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the
4 tn Or “valuable” (see 5:17).
5 tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”
6 tn Heb “inside and out.”
7 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word טְפָחוֹת (tÿfakhot) is uncertain, but it is clear that the referent stands in opposition to the foundation.
7 tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”
8 tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”
10 tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
11 tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”
13 tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).
13 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
14 tn Or perhaps “to you, O
15 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
16 tn Or “toward heaven.”
19 tn Heb “the word of the
22 tn The noun translated “small flocks” occurs only here. The common interpretation derives the word from the verbal root חשׂף, “to strip off; to make bare.” In this case the noun refers to something “stripped off” or “made bare.” HALOT 359 s.v. II חשׂף derives the noun from a proposed homonymic verbal root (which occurs only in Ps 29:9) meaning “cause a premature birth.” In this case the derived noun could refer to goats that are undersized because they are born prematurely.