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1 Kings 8:36-38
New English Translation
1 Kings 8:36-38
New English Translation
36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly[a] you will then teach them the right way to live[b] and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.[c]
37 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust[d] invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,[e] or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs. 38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,[f] as they acknowledge their pain[g] and spread out their hands toward this temple,
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- 1 Kings 8:36 tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.
- 1 Kings 8:36 tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”
- 1 Kings 8:36 tn Or “for an inheritance.”
- 1 Kings 8:37 tn Actually two Hebrew terms appear here, both of which are usually taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view.
- 1 Kings 8:37 tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”
- 1 Kings 8:38 tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”
- 1 Kings 8:38 tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”
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