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1 Kings 8:27-29
New English Translation
1 Kings 8:27-29
New English Translation
27 “God does not really live on the earth![a] Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built! 28 But respond favorably to[b] your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer[c] the desperate prayer[d] your servant is presenting to you[e] today. 29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live.[f] May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.[g]
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- 1 Kings 8:27 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.
- 1 Kings 8:28 tn Heb “turn to.”
- 1 Kings 8:28 tn Heb “by listening to.”
- 1 Kings 8:28 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
- 1 Kings 8:28 tn Heb “praying before you.”
- 1 Kings 8:29 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.’”
- 1 Kings 8:29 tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”
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