1 Kings 8:29

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

1 Kings 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to the Lord toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,


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.’”

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

tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

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