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.¹

1 Kings 8:36

8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly² you will then teach them the right way to live³ and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.⁴

¹tn 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.”

²tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

³tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

⁴tn Or “for an inheritance.”