1 Raja-raja 8:10-29
Konteks8:10 Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the Lord’s temple. 8:11 The priests could not carry out their duties 1 because of the cloud; the Lord’s glory filled his temple. 2
8:12 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness. 8:13 O Lord, 3 truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.” 8:14 Then the king turned around 4 and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there. 5 8:15 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled 6 what he promised 7 my father David. 8:16 He told David, 8 ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. 9 But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’ 8:17 Now my father David had a strong desire 10 to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. 11 8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. 12 8:19 But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ 13 8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. 14 I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor 15 of the Lord God of Israel 8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors 16 when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. 17 8:23 He prayed: 18 “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty 19 to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 20 8:24 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; 21 this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. 22 8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, 23 provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ 24 8:26 Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made 25 to your servant, my father David, be realized. 26
8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! 27 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built! 8:28 But respond favorably to 28 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 29 the desperate prayer 30 your servant is presenting to you 31 today. 8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. 32 May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 33
[8:11] 1 tn Heb “were not able to stand to serve.”
[8:11] 2 tn Heb “the house of the
[8:13] 3 tn The words “O
[8:14] 4 tn Heb “turned his face.”
[8:14] 5 tn Heb “and he blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel was standing.”
[8:15] 6 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”
[8:15] 7 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”
[8:16] 9 tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”
[8:16] sn To build a temple in which to live (Heb “to build a house for my name to be there”). In the OT, the word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the
[8:17] 10 tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father.”
[8:17] 11 tn Heb “to build a house for the name of the
[8:18] 12 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
[8:19] 13 tn Heb “your son, the one who came out of your body, he will build the temple for my name.”
[8:20] 14 tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”
[8:21] 16 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).
[8:23] 19 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
[8:23] 20 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
[8:24] 21 tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”
[8:24] 22 tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”
[8:25] 23 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
[8:25] 24 tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”
[8:26] 25 tn Heb “the words that you spoke.”
[8:26] 26 tn Or “prove to be reliable.”
[8:27] 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.
[8:28] 29 tn Heb “by listening to.”
[8:28] 30 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
[8:28] 31 tn Heb “praying before you.”
[8:29] 32 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.’”
[8:29] 33 tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”
