1 Kings 8:28-29

8:28 But respond favorably to ¹  your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer ²  the desperate prayer ³  your servant is presenting to you ⁴  today. 8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ⁵  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ⁶ 

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ⁷  in the month Ethanim ⁸  (the seventh month).

1 Kings 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ⁹  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

Psalms 34:15

34:15 The Lord pays attention to the godly

and hears their cry for help. ¹⁰ 

Psalms 130:2

130:2 O Lord, listen to me! ¹¹ 

Pay attention to ¹²  my plea for mercy!

Daniel 9:17-18

9:17 “So now, our God, accept ¹³  the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to ¹⁴  your devastated sanctuary for your own sake. ¹⁵  9:18 Listen attentively, ¹⁶  my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ¹⁷  and the city called by your name. ¹⁸  For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ¹⁹  but because your compassion is abundant.

¹ tn Heb “turn to.”

² tn Heb “by listening to.”

³ tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”

⁴ tn Heb “praying before you.”

⁵ 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.’”

⁶ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

⁷ sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

⁸ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

⁹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord [are] toward the godly, and his ears [are] toward their cry for help.”

¹¹ tn Heb “my voice.”

¹² tn Heb “may your ears be attentive to the voice of.”

¹³ tn Heb “hear.” Here the verb refers to hearing favorably, accepting the prayer and responding positively.

¹⁴ tn Heb “let your face shine.” This idiom pictures God smiling in favor. See Pss 31:16; 67:1; 80:3, 7, 19.

¹⁵ tn Heb “for the sake of my Lord.” Theodotion has “for your sake.” Cf. v. 19.

¹⁶ tn Heb “turn your ear.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.

¹⁸ tn Heb “over which your name is called.” Cf. v. 19. This expression implies that God is the owner of his city, Jerusalem. Note the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1; Amos 9:12.

¹⁹ tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”