1 Kings 8:30

8:30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. ¹  Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place ²  and respond favorably. ³ 

1 Kings 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ⁴  as they acknowledge their pain ⁵  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

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. ⁶ 

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered ⁷  your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; ⁸  I will be constantly present there. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “listen to the request of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

² tn 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.

³ tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

⁴ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

⁵ tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

⁷ tn Or “toward heaven.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “I have heard.”

¹¹ tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

¹² tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”