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 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered ⁴  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; ⁵  I will be constantly present there. ⁶ 

1 Kings 9:2

9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. ⁷ 

1 Kings 20:9

20:9 So he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Say this to my master, the king, ‘I will give you everything you demanded at first from your servant, but I am unable to agree to this latest demand.’” ⁸  So the messengers went back and gave their report.

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 “I have heard.”

⁵ tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

⁶ tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

⁷ sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.

⁸ tn Heb “all which you sent to your servant in the beginning I will do, but this thing I am unable to do.”