1 Kings 8:38
Context8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, 1 as they acknowledge their pain 2 and spread out their hands toward this temple,
1 Kings 8:43
Context8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. 3 Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, 4 obey 5 you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. 6


[8:38] 1 tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”
[8:38] 2 tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”
[8:43] 3 tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”
[8:43] 4 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
[8:43] 6 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.