2 Raja-raja 19:20

19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. ¹ 

Mazmur 65:2

65:2 You hear prayers; ² 

all people approach you. ³ 

Mazmur 66:19-20

66:19 However, God heard;

he listened to my prayer.

66:20 God deserves praise, ⁴ 

for ⁵  he did not reject my prayer

or abandon his love for me! ⁶ 

Lukas 1:13

1:13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, ⁷  and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you ⁸  will name him John. ⁹ 

[19:20]  ¹ tn Heb “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in the parallel passage in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense, “because.”

[65:2]  ² tn Heb “O one who hears prayer.”

[65:2]  ³ tn Heb “to you all flesh comes.”

[66:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “blessed [be] God.”

[66:20]  ⁵ tn Or “who.” In a blessing formula after בָּרוּךְ (barukh, “blessed be”) the form אֲשֶׁר (’asher), whether taken as a relative pronoun or causal particle, introduces the basis for the blessing/praise.

[66:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “did not turn aside my prayer and his loyal love with me.”

[1:13]  ⁷ tn The passive means that the prayer was heard by God.

[1:13]  sn Your prayer has been heard. Zechariah’s prayer while offering the sacrifice would have been for the nation, but the answer to the prayer also gave them a long hoped-for child, a hope they had abandoned because of their old age.

[1:13]  ⁸ tn Grk “a son, and you”; καί (kai) has not been translated. Instead a semicolon is used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:13]  ⁹ tn Grk “you will call his name John.” The future tense here functions like a command (see ExSyn 569-70). This same construction occurs in v. 31.

[1:13]  sn “Do not be afraid…you must call his name John.” This is a standard birth announcement (see Gen 16:11; Isa 7:14; Matt 1:21; Luke 1:31).