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 8:59

8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, ³  so that he might vindicate ⁴  his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.

[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.”

[8:59]  ³ tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night.”

[8:59]  ⁴ tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”