1 Kings 8:22-23

Solomon Prays for Israel

8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. ¹  8:23 He prayed: ²  “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty ³  to your servants who obey you with sincerity. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ⁵ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ⁶  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ⁷ 

1 Kings 17:16

17:16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised ⁸  through Elijah.

1 Kings 1:10-12

1:10 But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the elite warriors, ⁹  or his brother Solomon.

1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you ¹⁰  that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? ¹¹  1:12 Now ¹²  let me give you some advice as to how ¹³  you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.

1 Kings 1:2

1:2 His servants advised ¹⁴  him, “A young virgin must be found for our master, the king, ¹⁵  to take care of the king’s needs ¹⁶  and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you ¹⁷  and keep our master, the king, warm.” ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 6:13

6:13 I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”

1 Kings 1:29

1:29 The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me ¹⁹  from every danger),

Matthew 26:39

26:39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, ²⁰  “My Father, if possible, ²¹  let this cup ²²  pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Hebrews 5:7-8

5:7 During his earthly life ²³  Christ ²⁴  offered ²⁵  both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion. 5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered. ²⁶ 

¹ tn Or “heaven.”

² tn Heb “said.”

³ tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.

⁴ tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

⁵ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

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⁷ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

⁸ tn Heb “out, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

⁹ tn Or “bodyguard” (Heb “mighty men”).

¹⁰ tn Heb “Have you not heard?”

¹¹ tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”

¹² tn Heb “now, come.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.

¹³ tn Or “so that.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “said to.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “let them seek for my master, the king, a young girl, a virgin.” The third person plural subject of the verb is indefinite (see GKC 460 §144.f). The appositional expression, “a young girl, a virgin,” is idiomatic; the second term specifically defines the more general first term (see IBHS 230 §12.3b).

¹⁶ tn Heb “and she will stand before the king.” The Hebrew phrase “stand before” can mean “to attend; to serve” (BDB 764 s.v. עָמַד).

¹⁷ tn Heb “and she will lie down in your bosom.” The expression might imply sexual intimacy (see 2 Sam 12:3 [where the lamb symbolizes Bathsheba] and Mic 7:5), though v. 4b indicates that David did not actually have sex with the young woman.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and my master, the king, will be warm.”

¹⁹ tn Or “ransomed my life.”

²⁰ tn Grk “ground, praying and saying.” Here the participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

²¹ tn Grk “if it is possible.”

²² sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.

²³ tn Grk “in the days of his flesh.”

²⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁵ tn Grk “who…having offered,” continuing the description of Christ from Heb 5:5-6.

²⁶ sn There is a wordplay in the Greek text between the verbs “learned” (ἔμαθεν, emaqen) and “suffered” (ἔπαθεν, epaqen).