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 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ³  as they acknowledge their pain ⁴  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

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. ⁵ 

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered ⁶  your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; ⁷  I will be constantly present there. ⁸ 

[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.”

[8:38]  ³ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[8:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

[8:54]  ⁵ tn Or “toward heaven.”

[9:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “I have heard.”

[9:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

[9:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”