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1 Kings 8:43-45
New English Translation
1 Kings 8:43-45
New English Translation
43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners.[a] Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation,[b] obey[c] you as your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.[d]
44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies,[e] and they direct their prayers to the Lord[f] toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,[g] 45 then listen from heaven to their prayers for help[h] and vindicate them.[i]
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- 1 Kings 8:43 tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”
- 1 Kings 8:43 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
- 1 Kings 8:43 tn Heb “fear.”
- 1 Kings 8:43 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.
- 1 Kings 8:44 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
- 1 Kings 8:44 tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.
- 1 Kings 8:44 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
- 1 Kings 8:45 tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”
- 1 Kings 8:45 tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”
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