1 Kings 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ¹  There I will separate the logs ²  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ³ 

1 Kings 8:30

8:30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. ⁴  Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place ⁵  and respond favorably. ⁶ 

1 Kings 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ⁷  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ⁸  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ⁹  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹⁰  them,

[5:9]  ¹ tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

[5:9]  ² tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

[5:9]  ³ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

[8:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “listen to the request of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

[8:30]  ⁵ 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.

[8:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

[8:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:35]  ⁸ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).