1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

Daniel 9:18-19

9:18 Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant. 9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”


tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

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

tn Heb “fear.”

tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

tn Heb “turn your ear.”

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

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.

tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”

tn Heb “for your name is called over your city and your people.” See the note on this expression in v 18.