1 Kings 3:22

3:22 The other woman said, “No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied, “No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king. ¹ 

1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ²  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”

² 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.’”

³ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”