1 Kings 8:52

8:52 “May you be attentive ¹  to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. ² 

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ³  in the month Ethanim ⁴  (the seventh month).

1 Kings 19:16

19:16 You must anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to take your place as prophet.

1 Kings 19:2

19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, ⁵  “May the gods judge me severely ⁶  if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” ⁷ 

1 Kings 6:20

6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet ⁸  long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, ⁹  as well as the cedar altar. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ¹¹  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 7:15

7:15 He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet ¹²  high and 18 feet ¹³  in circumference.

1 Kings 16:9

16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily ¹⁴  at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,

Nehemiah 1:6

1:6 may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed ¹⁵  against you – both I myself and my family ¹⁶  have sinned.

Psalms 34:15

34:15 The Lord pays attention to the godly

and hears their cry for help. ¹⁷ 

Daniel 9:18

9:18 Listen attentively, ¹⁸  my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ¹⁹  and the city called by your name. ²⁰  For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ²¹  but because your compassion is abundant.

¹ tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”

² tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”

³ sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

⁴ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

⁶ tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

⁷ tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”

⁸ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).

⁹ tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

¹⁰ tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”

¹¹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

¹² tn Heb “eighteen cubits.”

¹³ tn Heb “twelve cubits.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “have sinned.” For stylistic reasons – to avoid redundancy in English – this was translated as “committed.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “the house of my father.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord [are] toward the godly, and his ears [are] toward their cry for help.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “turn your ear.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.

²⁰ 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.

²¹ tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”