1 Kings 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! ¹  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 8:45

8:45 then listen from heaven to their prayers for help ²  and vindicate them. ³ 

1 Kings 8:22

Solomon Prays for Israel

8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:49

8:49 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help ⁵  and vindicate them. ⁶ 

1 Kings 16:4

16:4 Dogs will eat the members of Baasha’s family ⁷  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

1 Kings 21:24

21:24 As for Ahab’s family, dogs will eat the ones ⁸  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

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. ⁹ 

1 Kings 8:34

8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

1 Kings 14:11

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family ¹⁰  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Kings 18:45

18:45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward ¹¹  Jezreel.

1 Kings 22:19

22:19 Micaiah ¹²  said, “That being the case, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.

1 Kings 8:23

8:23 He prayed: ¹³  “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty ¹⁴  to your servants who obey you with sincerity. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 8:30

8:30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. ¹⁶  Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place ¹⁷  and respond favorably. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 8:35-36

8:35 “The time will come when ¹⁹  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ²⁰  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ²¹  and turn away from their sin because you punish ²²  them, 8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ²³  you will then teach them the right way to live ²⁴  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ²⁵ 

1 Kings 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ²⁶  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. ²⁷  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ²⁸ 

1 Kings 8:54

8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. ²⁹ 

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ³⁰  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ³¹  obey ³²  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ³³ 

[8:27]  ¹ tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

[8:45]  ² tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

[8:45]  ³ tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

[8:22]  ³ tn Or “heaven.”

[8:49]  ⁴ tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

[8:49]  ⁵ tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

[16:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “the ones belonging to Baasha.”

[21:24]  ⁶ tn “Dogs will eat the ones who belonging to Ahab who die in the city.”

[8:32]  ⁷ tn 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.”

[14:11]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

[18:45]  ⁹ tn Heb “rode and went to.”

[22:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “said.”

[8:23]  ¹² tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[8:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

[8:30]  ¹² tn Heb “listen to the request of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

[8:30]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

[8:35]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ¹⁶ 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”).

[8:36]  ¹⁴ tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.

[8:36]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[8:36]  ¹⁶ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[8:39]  ¹⁵ tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

[8:39]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[8:39]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[8:54]  ¹⁶ tn Or “toward heaven.”

[8:43]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ²⁰ 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.