1 Kings 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth!¹ Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 8:45

8:45 then listen from heaven to their prayers for help² and vindicate them.³

1 Kings 8:22

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.⁴

1 Kings 8:49

8:49 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help⁵ and vindicate them.⁶

1 Kings 16:4

16:4 Dogs will eat the members of Baasha’s family⁷ who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

1 Kings 21:24

21:24 As for Ahab’s family, dogs will eat the ones⁸ who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

1 Kings 8:32

8:32 Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.⁹

1 Kings 8:34

8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

1 Kings 14:11

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family¹⁰ who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Kings 22:19

22:19 Micaiah¹¹ said, “That being the case, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.

1 Kings 8:30

8:30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place.¹² Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place¹³ and respond favorably.¹⁴

1 Kings 8:36

8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly¹⁵ you will then teach them the right way to live¹⁶ and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.¹⁷

1 Kings 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,¹⁸ and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.¹⁹ (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)²⁰

1 Kings 8:54

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.²¹

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners.²² Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation,²³ obey²⁴ you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.²⁵

¹tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

²tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

³tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

³tn Or “heaven.”

⁴tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

⁵tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

⁵tn Heb “the ones belonging to Baasha.”

⁶tn “Dogs will eat the ones who belonging to Ahab who die in the city.”

⁷tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

⁸tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰tn Heb “listen to the request of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

¹¹tn Heb “and you, hear inside your dwelling place, inside heaven.” The precise nuance of the preposition אֶל (’el), used here with the verb “hear,” is unclear. One expects the preposition “from,” which appears in the parallel text in 2 Chr 6:21. The nuance “inside; among” is attested for אֶל (see Gen 23:19; 1 Sam 10:22; Jer 4:3), but in each case a verb of motion is employed with the preposition, unlike 1 Kgs 8:30. The translation above (“from inside”) is based on the demands of the immediate context rather than attested usage elsewhere.

¹²tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

¹¹tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

¹²tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

¹³tn Or “for an inheritance.”

¹²tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

¹³tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

¹⁴tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

¹³tn Or “toward heaven.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

¹⁵tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

¹⁶tn Heb “fear.”

¹⁷tn 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.