1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ¹  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ²  obey ³  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ⁵ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ⁶  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ⁷ 

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory

17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), ⁸  there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” ⁹ 

1 Kings 17:1-2

Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory

17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), ¹⁰  there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” ¹¹  17:2 The Lord told him: ¹² 

1 Kings 1:3

1:3 So they looked through all Israel ¹³  for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Kings 1:6

1:6 (Now his father had never corrected ¹⁴  him ¹⁵  by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. ¹⁶ )

1 Kings 5:15

5:15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers ¹⁷  and 80,000 stonecutters ¹⁸  in the hills,

1 Kings 19:19

19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.

Psalms 67:1-2

Psalm 67 ¹⁹ 

For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm, a song.

67:1 May God show us his favor ²⁰  and bless us! ²¹ 

May he smile on us! ²²  (Selah)

67:2 Then those living on earth will know what you are like;

all nations will know how you deliver your people. ²³ 

Psalms 83:18

83:18 Then they will know ²⁴  that you alone are the Lord, ²⁵ 

the sovereign king ²⁶  over all the earth.

Ezekiel 36:23

36:23 I will magnify ²⁷  my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.

Ezekiel 39:7

39:7 “‘I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. ²⁸ 

[8:43]  ¹ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ² tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ³ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ⁴ 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.

[8:1]  ⁵ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[17:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[17:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”

[17:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[17:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”

[17:2]  ¹² tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to him, saying.”

[1:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”

[1:6]  ¹⁴ tn Or “disciplined.”

[1:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.

[1:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).

[5:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

[5:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).

[67:1]  ¹⁹ sn Psalm 67. The psalmist prays for God’s blessing upon his people and urges the nations to praise him for he is the just ruler of the world.

[67:1]  ²⁰ tn Or “have mercy on us.”

[67:1]  ²¹ tn The prefixed verbal forms are understood as jussives expressing the psalmist’s prayer. Note the jussive form יָאֵר (ya’er) in the next line.

[67:1]  ²² tn Heb “may he cause his face to shine with us.”

[67:2]  ²³ tn Heb “to know in the earth your way, among all nations your deliverance.” The infinitive with -לְ (lamed) expresses purpose/result. When God demonstrates his favor to his people, all nations will recognize his character as a God who delivers. The Hebrew term דֶּרֶךְ (derekh, “way”) refers here to God’s characteristic behavior, more specifically, to the way he typically saves his people.

[83:18]  ²⁴ tn After the preceding jussives (v. 17), the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose (“so that they may know”) or result.

[83:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “that you, your name [is] the Lord, you alone.”

[83:18]  ²⁶ tn Traditionally “the Most High.”

[36:23]  ²⁷ tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”

[39:7]  ²⁸ sn The basic sense of the word “holy” is “set apart from that which is commonplace, special, unique.” The Lord’s holiness is first and foremost his transcendent sovereignty as the ruler of the world. He is “set apart” from the world over which he rules. At the same time his holiness encompasses his moral authority, which derives from his royal position. As king he has the right to dictate to his subjects how they are to live; indeed his very own character sets the standard for proper behavior. This expression is a common title for the Lord in the book of Isaiah.