1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 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 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 ⁵  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

Daniel 9:18

9:18 Listen attentively, ⁶  my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ⁷  and the city called by your name. ⁸  For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ⁹  but because your compassion is abundant.

[8:29]  ¹ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[8:29]  ² tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[8:2]  ³ sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

[8:2]  ⁴ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

[6:1]  ⁵ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[9:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “turn your ear.”

[9:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.

[9:18]  ⁸ 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.

[9:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”