1 Kings 8:38-39

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8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,¹ as they acknowledge their pain² and spread out their hands toward this temple, 8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,³ and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.⁴ (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)⁵

1 Kings 8:42

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8:42 When they hear about your great reputation⁶ and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds,⁷ they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

1 Kings 8:48

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8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being⁸ in the land where they are held prisoner,⁹ and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,¹⁰

1 Kings 8:2

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8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival¹¹ in the month Ethanim¹² (the seventh month).

1 Kings 6:38

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6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul¹³ (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build.¹⁴

Psalms 5:7

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5:7 But as for me,¹⁵ because of your great faithfulness I will enter your house;¹⁶

I will bow down toward your holy temple as I worship you.¹⁷

Daniel 6:10

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6:10 When Daniel realized¹⁸ that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows¹⁹ in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem.²⁰ Three²¹ times daily he was²² kneeling²³ and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

[8:38] ¹tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[8:38] ²tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

[8:39] ³tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

[8:39] ⁴tn 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] ⁵tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[8:42] ⁶tn Heb “your great name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in the previous verse.

[8:42] ⁷tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”

[8:48] ⁸tn Or “soul.”

[8:48] ⁹tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”

[8:48] ¹⁰tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:2] ¹¹sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

[8:2] ¹²sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

[6:38] ¹³sn In the month Bul. This would be October-November 959 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[6:38] ¹⁴tn Heb “he built it in seven years.”

[5:7] ¹⁵sn But as for me. By placing the first person pronoun at the beginning of the verse, the psalmist highlights the contrast between the evildoers’ actions and destiny, outlined in the preceding verses, with his own.

[5:7] ¹⁶sn I will enter your house. The psalmist is confident that God will accept him into his presence, in contrast to the evildoers (see v. 5).

[5:7] ¹⁷tn Heb “in fear [of] you.” The Hebrew noun יִרְאָה (yir’ah, “fear”), when used of fearing God, is sometimes used metonymically for what it ideally produces: “worship, reverence, piety.”

[6:10] ¹⁸tn Aram “knew.”

[6:10] ¹⁹sn In later rabbinic thought this verse was sometimes cited as a proof text for the notion that one should pray only in a house with windows. See b. Berakhot 34b.

[6:10] ²⁰map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:10] ²¹sn This is apparently the only specific mention in the OT of prayer being regularly offered three times a day. The practice was probably not unique to Daniel, however.

[6:10] ²²tc Read with several medieval Hebrew MSS and printed editions הֲוָה (havah) rather than the MT הוּא (hu’).

[6:10] ²³tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).