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1 Kings 8 — Hebrew and Greek compared

Saints Translation — 1 Kings 1–22 — Comparison V2

Same 7 Similar 8 Different 34 Divergent 15 Disparate 3

Disparate in this chapter: MT 8:48, MT 8:65, MT 8:66

Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.

1 Kings 8

The dwelling of glory and the God whom heaven cannot contain

Editorial Christian reading: Acts 7:47–50 [C4] and John 2:19–22 [C3] frame the temple without erasing Solomon’s confession of God’s transcendence.

8:1–11 | The ark enters the house; the glory fills it

Verse MT 8:1 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:1

Then Solomon assembled Israel’s elders, all the tribal heads, the leaders of the ancestral houses of the sons of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of YHWH’s covenant from the City of David, which is Zion.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:1

When Solomon had finished building the Lord’s house and his own house after twenty years, King Solomon assembled all Israel’s elders in Zion to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the City of David, which is Zion,

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek adds a twenty-year completion setting and locates the assembly in Zion; Hebrew names Jerusalem and additionally lists the tribal and ancestral leaders. The chronological claim is retained without harmonizing it to a different dedication date.

Verse MT 8:2 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:2

All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:2

in the month of Athanin.

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek supplies only the month name as a continuation of verse 1. It lacks Hebrew’s full assembly, feast, and seventh-month clauses. The printed Greek month form is preserved.

Verse MT 8:3 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:3

All Israel’s elders came, and the priests carried the ark.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:3

The priests carried the ark

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek lacks the elders’ arrival and carries its object list into verse 4. No missing gathering sentence is supplied in the Greek column.

Verse MT 8:4 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:4

They brought up YHWH’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy utensils in the tent. The priests and Levites brought them up.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:4

and the tent of testimony and all the holy utensils in the tent of testimony,

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek continues the priests’ carrying from verse 3, lacks the repeated ark and Levite-bearing clauses, and names the tent of testimony rather than the Tent of Meeting. Its repeated testimony is retained.

Verse MT 8:5 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:5

King Solomon and the whole assembly of Israel gathered around him were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle too numerous to be counted or numbered.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:5

while the king and all Israel were before the ark, sacrificing innumerable sheep and cattle.

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek gives a shorter description of the gathering and one innumerability term where Hebrew has two counting verbs and the reason of multitude. Both retain the sacrifices before the ark.

Verse MT 8:6 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:6

The priests brought the ark of YHWH’s covenant to its place, into the house’s inner sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, beneath the cherubim’s wings.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:6

The priests brought the ark to its place, into the house’s inner sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, beneath the cherubim’s wings.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek lacks of the Lord’s covenant here and uses the borrowed dabir, translated inner sanctuary [D8]. The movement into the Holy of Holies and under the wings agrees.

Verse MT 8:7 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:7

For the cherubim spread their wings over the ark’s place; the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:7

For the cherubim had their wings spread over the ark’s place; the cherubim covered the ark and its holy things from above.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew specifies carrying poles; Greek has holy things. The English does not silently restore poles to the Greek adjective used substantivally.

Verse MT 8:8 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:8

The poles extended so that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside. They are there to this day.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:8

The consecrated things projected, and the ends of the consecrated things could be seen from the holy places in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside.

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek again describes consecrated things rather than poles and lacks to this day. Its plural holy places is preserved. Hebrew’s present-day notice belongs to the narrator’s standpoint, not a claim about the building today.

Verse MT 8:9 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:9

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where YHWH made a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:9

There was nothing in the ark except two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, which Moses had placed there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the sons of Israel as they came out of the land of Egypt.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek explicitly repeats tablets of the covenant. Both restrict the ark’s contents here to the two tablets; neither is expanded from another biblical description.

Verse MT 8:10 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:10

When the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled YHWH’s house.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:10

When the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew explicitly names YHWH’s house; Greek has the house. The timing and filling cloud agree.

Verse MT 8:11 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:11

The priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for YHWH’s glory filled YHWH’s house.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:11

The priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the Lord’s glory filled the house.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew repeats the divine name with the house; Greek does not. Both ascribe the priests’ inability to minister to the glory-filling cloud.

8:12–21 | Solomon speaks of the promise and the house

Verse MT 8:12 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:12

Then Solomon said, “YHWH has said that He would dwell in thick darkness.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

No LXX counterpart

[No Greek counterpart at this location;
compare 8:53a.]

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: The checked Greek moves from verse 11 to verse 14. Its related but substantially different poem is preserved at 53a, after the prayer; the texts are not merged.

Verse MT 8:13 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:13

I have indeed built an exalted house for You, a settled place for You to dwell forever.”

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

No LXX counterpart

[No Greek counterpart at this location;
compare 8:53a.]

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Hebrew’s emphatic first-person building declaration and enduring dwelling differ from the Greek poem’s command and newness wording. Hebrew zevul is rendered exalted provisionally; no reconstructed earlier poem replaces the received wording.

Verse MT 8:14 Similar

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:14

The king turned his face and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while the whole assembly of Israel stood.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:14

The king turned his face, and the king blessed all Israel, while the whole assembly of Israel stood.

Classification & Notes

Similar

Text: Greek repeats king and has all Israel at the blessing; Hebrew repeats the whole assembly. The action and standing congregation agree.

Verse MT 8:15 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:15

He said, “Blessed be YHWH, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and fulfilled it with His hand, saying,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:15

He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, today, who spoke with His mouth concerning my father David and fulfilled it with His hands, saying,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek adds today, speaks concerning David rather than to him, and has plural hands. Both preserve the mouth-and-hand image connecting promise with fulfillment.

Verse MT 8:16 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:16

‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city from all Israel’s tribes in which to build a house for My name to be there; but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:16

‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city in any tribe of Israel in which to build a house for My name to be there; but I chose Jerusalem for My name to be there, and I chose David to be over My people Israel.’

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek expressly adds the choice of Jerusalem. Hebrew moves directly from no chosen city to David. Tribe contextually renders Greek skeptron, literally a staff or scepter, without adding another royal office.

Verse MT 8:17 Same

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:17

It was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of YHWH, the God of Israel.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:17

It came into the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Classification & Notes

Same

Text: Both describe David’s intention through the heart image and name the same divine purpose.

Verse MT 8:18 Same

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:18

But YHWH said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:18

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because it came into your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it came into your heart.

Classification & Notes

Same

Text: Both repeat the heart intention and affirm it before the following restriction. The restriction is not allowed to erase the commendation.

Verse MT 8:19 Similar

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:19

Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; your son who comes from your loins shall build the house for My name.’

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:19

Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; your son who comes from your sides shall build the house for My name.’

Classification & Notes

Similar

Text: Hebrew loins and Greek sides use related bodily descent imagery. Both explicitly distinguish David from the son who will build.

Verse MT 8:20 Same

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:20

YHWH has established the word He spoke. I have risen in place of my father David and sat on Israel’s throne, as YHWH promised, and I have built the house for the name of YHWH, the God of Israel.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:20

The Lord has established the word He spoke. I have risen in place of my father David and sat on Israel’s throne, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Classification & Notes

Same

Text: The fulfilled word, succession, throne, and building declaration agree, with each column retaining its source’s divine designation.

Verse MT 8:21 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:21

There I made a place for the ark, in which is YHWH’s covenant that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:21

There I made a place for the ark, in which is the Lord’s covenant that the Lord made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek repeats the Lord as covenant-maker; Hebrew has the implicit subject. Both connect the ark with the covenant and exodus.

8:22–30 | Prayer before the God of heaven

Verse MT 8:22 Same

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:22

Solomon stood before YHWH’s altar in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel and spread his hands toward heaven.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:22

Solomon stood before the Lord’s altar in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel and spread his hands toward heaven.

Classification & Notes

Same

Text: The position, public setting, and prayer gesture agree. The later kneeling notice is retained when it occurs, without adding a movement here.

Verse MT 8:23 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:23

He said, “YHWH, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and kindness with Your servants who walk before You with all their heart.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:23

He said, “Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and mercy with Your servant who walks before You with all his heart,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew has plural servants and Greek singular servant, preparing its connection to David in verse 24. Kindness and mercy preserve the respective covenantal terms. The whole-hearted fidelity remains explicit.

Verse MT 8:24 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:24

You have kept for Your servant David my father what You promised him; You spoke with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is today.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:24

which You kept for Your servant David my father; You spoke with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hands, as it is today.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew expressly states what You promised him; Greek connects the preceding covenant and mercy through a relative pronoun. Greek hands is plural, against Hebrew hand.

Verse MT 8:25 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:25

Now, YHWH, the God of Israel, keep for Your servant David my father what You promised him: ‘You shall not lack a man before Me sitting on Israel’s throne, if only your sons guard their way, walking before Me as you have walked before Me.’

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:25

Now, Lord, the God of Israel, keep for Your servant David my father what You promised him: ‘A man of yours shall not be removed from before Me sitting on Israel’s throne, if only your children guard their ways, walking before Me as you have walked before Me.’

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew has sons and singular way; Greek children and plural ways. Both removal idioms promise continuity under an explicit condition; the request does not turn that condition into an unconditional guarantee.

Verse MT 8:26 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:26

Now, God of Israel, please let Your word be confirmed, which You spoke to Your servant David my father.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:26

Now, Lord, the God of Israel, let Your word to David my father indeed be confirmed.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew follows the traditional singular read form Your word against the written plural [Q8]. Greek adds Lord but lacks Hebrew’s explicit spoke and Your servant. Both ask confirmation of the word.

Verse MT 8:27 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:27

But will God truly dwell on earth? Look, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You; how much less this house that I have built!

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:27

But will God truly dwell with people on earth? If heaven and the heaven of heaven are not sufficient for You, how much less this house that I have built for Your name!

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek adds with people and for Your name, and uses sufficiency rather than Hebrew’s containing verb. Both deny that the constructed house can circumscribe God; the question is preserved rather than converted into a denial of all divine presence.

Saints: Stephen’s speech names Solomon as the house’s builder and denies that the Most High is confined to houses made by hands (Acts 7:47–50 [C4]). Irenaeus also cites Solomon’s question while describing his faithful ministry [P2, IV.27.1].

Verse MT 8:28 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:28

Yet turn toward Your servant’s prayer and supplication, YHWH my God, to hear the cry and prayer that Your servant prays before You today,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:28

Look upon my supplication, Lord, the God of Israel, to hear the rejoicing that Your servant offers in prayer before You, to You, today,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek has my supplication and the God of Israel where Hebrew has Your servant’s prayer and supplication and my God. Greek terpsis denotes delight or rejoicing, against Hebrew’s cry and prayer. Offers in prayer supplies natural English for the unusual Greek prayer construction; its joyful term is not erased.

Verse MT 8:29 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:29

so that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to hear the prayer Your servant prays toward this place.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:29

so that Your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to hear the prayer Your servant prays toward this place day and night.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek reverses night and day and repeats the pair at the end. Both connect attentive divine eyes with hearing prayer toward the named place.

Verse MT 8:30 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:30

Hear the supplication of Your servant and Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear in Your dwelling place, in heaven; hear and forgive.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:30

Hear the supplication of Your servant and Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear in Your dwelling place, in heaven; act and be merciful.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew’s final hear and forgive becomes Greek act and be merciful. The verbal forms are rendered as petitions within Solomon’s prayer, not as unconditional predictions that every request must be granted.

Hear, forgive, and gather those who turn toward You

Editorial Christian reading: the petitions join judgment, repentance, mercy, and prayer for the foreigner; they remain Solomon’s actual petitions.

8:31–40 | Justice, defeat, drought, and affliction

Verse MT 8:31 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:31

“When a man sins against his neighbor and an oath is laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath comes before Your altar in this house,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:31

“Whatever each person’s sin against his neighbor, if he takes an oath-curse upon himself to swear it, and comes and makes his declaration before Your altar in this house,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew describes imposition of an oath and its coming before the altar; Greek describes taking an oath-curse and making an open declaration. The difficult Hebrew final clause is retained without adding a confession of guilt. Greek exagoreuo can denote declaring or confessing; declaration leaves the legal content open.

Verse MT 8:32 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:32

then hear in heaven, act, and judge Your servants: condemn the wicked by bringing his way upon his own head, and vindicate the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:32

then hear from heaven, act, and judge Your people Israel: condemn the lawless by bringing his way upon his own head, and vindicate the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew has Your servants; Greek Your people Israel. The guilty and innocent judgments agree in direction, with wicked and lawless reflecting the respective terms. No human verdict is supplied before the divine judgment is requested.

Verse MT 8:33 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:33

“When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You, acknowledge Your name, and pray and plead with You in this house,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:33

“When Your people Israel stumble before enemies because they have sinned against You, and they return, acknowledge Your name, and pray and plead in this house,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew expressly repeats to You and has a defeat verb; Greek has stumbling and plural enemies. Both connect the contemplated defeat with sin and retain repentance and prayer as part of the petition.

Verse MT 8:34 Similar

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:34

then hear in heaven, forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land You gave their fathers.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:34

then hear from heaven, be merciful concerning the sins of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land You gave their fathers.

Classification & Notes

Similar

Text: The requested hearing, mercy, and restoration agree. Hebrew uses collective sin and forgiving; Greek plural sins and being merciful.

Verse MT 8:35 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:35

“When heaven is shut and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place, acknowledge Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:35

“When heaven is shut and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place, acknowledge Your name, and turn from their sins when You humble them,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek has plural sins and a temporal when with humbling, where Hebrew is rendered causally with affliction. These are conditions within the prayer; the translation does not universalize them into a diagnosis of every drought.

Verse MT 8:36 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:36

then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, for You will teach them the good way in which they should walk. Give rain on Your land, which You gave Your people as an inheritance.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:36

then hear from heaven and be merciful concerning the sins of Your servant and Your people Israel, for You will show them the good way in which to walk. Give rain on the land, which You gave Your people as an inheritance.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew servants is plural and Your land is explicit; Greek servant is singular and has the land. Teach and show preserve the respective verbs, while both request rain and faithful walking.

Verse MT 8:37 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:37

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or devouring locust; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or sickness there is,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:37

“If there is famine, if there is death, if there is scorching, locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflicts them in one of their cities; whatever calamity or pain there is,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek death differs from Hebrew pestilence, and its crop-affliction list has one locust term rather than two. Hebrew’s land of their gates and Greek’s one of their cities differ. The ancient affliction words are not assigned modern medical or entomological diagnoses.

Verse MT 8:38 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:38

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any person, by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and spreading his hands toward this house,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:38

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any person, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and spreading his hands toward this house,

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek lacks by all Your people Israel. Both retain the individual’s recognition of the heart’s affliction and the outstretched-hands gesture; no particular unmentioned illness or sin is supplied.

Verse MT 8:39 Similar

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:39

then hear in heaven, Your established dwelling place; forgive, act, and give to each person according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of humankind,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:39

then hear from heaven, from Your prepared dwelling place; be merciful, act, and give to each person according to his ways, as You know his heart, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of humankind,

Classification & Notes

Similar

Text: The common petition grounds judgment in God’s unique knowledge of hearts. Hebrew expressly says all his ways; Greek uses prepared for the dwelling place and merciful for the requested response.

Verse MT 8:40 Same

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:40

so that they may fear You all the days they live on the land You gave our fathers.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:40

so that they may fear You all the days they live on the land You gave our fathers.

Classification & Notes

Same

Text: The purpose, duration, and ancestral gift agree. Fear remains visible rather than being reduced to a single modern emotional equivalent.

8:41–45 | The foreigner and the people at war

Verse MT 8:41 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:41

“Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, who comes from a distant land for Your name’s sake—

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:41

“Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people,

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek lacks Israel, the distant land, and the reason for coming. Its nominative houtos refers to the foreigner, not to the genitive people. The shorter Greek petition still concerns someone outside Your people; it is not made to exclude foreigners from prayer.

Verse MT 8:42 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:42

for they will hear of Your great name, Your mighty hand, and Your outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this house,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:42

when they come and pray toward this place,

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek lacks the report of the great name, mighty hand, and outstretched arm. It shifts to plural they and says place rather than house. Hebrew’s they will hear followed by singular he comes is retained.

Verse MT 8:43 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:43

hear in heaven, Your established dwelling place, and do all that the foreigner calls upon You for, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You as Your people Israel do, and may know that Your name is called over this house I have built.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:43

hear from heaven, from Your prepared dwelling place, and do all that the foreigner calls upon You for, so that all the peoples may know Your name and fear You as Your people Israel do, and may know that Your name is called over this house I have built.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek lacks of the earth but otherwise preserves the international purpose of the petition.

Rabbinic: Rashi contrasts this broad request for the foreigner with verse 39’s judgment according to conduct, explaining it through concern for the visiting worshiper’s recognition of God [R8]. That explanation remains reception, not an added motive in the biblical text.

Verse MT 8:44 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:44

“When Your people go out to war against their enemy by the way You send them, and pray to YHWH toward the city You chose and the house I built for Your name,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:44

“When Your people go out to war against their enemies by the way You turn them, and pray in the Lord’s name toward the city You chose and the house I built for Your name,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew has sending and prayer to YHWH; Greek turning or directing and prayer in the Lord’s name. Enemy is collective singular in Hebrew and plural in Greek.

Rabbinic: Rashi takes the cityward direction as facing Jerusalem [R8].

Verse MT 8:45 Similar

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:45

then hear their prayer and supplication in heaven and uphold their cause.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:45

then hear their supplication and prayer from heaven and uphold their cause.

Classification & Notes

Similar

Text: The order of the two prayer terms is reversed. Both ask God to render judgment for the people; neither supplies an unmentioned military outcome as already accomplished.

8:46–53a | Exile, repentance, and the Greek dedicatory poem

The Greek poem is numbered 8:53a; it is not inserted into the shorter Greek opening where Hebrew has 8:12–13.

Verse MT 8:46 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:46

“When they sin against You—for there is no person who does not sin—and You are angry with them and give them over to an enemy, and their captors carry them away to the enemy’s land, far or near,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:46

“When they sin against You—for there is no person who will not sin—and You bring trouble upon them and give them over before enemies, and their captors carry them away to a land far and near,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew expressly names divine anger and the enemy’s land; Greek has an elliptical bringing-upon verb, here trouble, and lacks enemy’s before land. Greek far and near is retained against Hebrew far or near. Neither column is rewritten to exempt the people from the stated possibility of sin.

Verse MT 8:47 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:47

and they take it to heart in the land where they were taken captive, return, and plead with You in their captors’ land, saying, ‘We have sinned, acted perversely, and done wickedly,’

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:47

and they turn their hearts in the land where they were deported, return, and plead with You in the land of their exile, saying, ‘We have sinned, acted lawlessly, and done wrong,’

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew’s taking-to-heart idiom and captors’ land differ from Greek’s turning hearts and land of exile. Both retain three confession verbs, with their own moral vocabulary.

Verse MT 8:48 Disparate

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:48

and they return to You with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to You toward their land, which You gave their fathers, the city You chose, and the house I built for Your name,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:48

and they return to You with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies, where You deported them, and pray to You toward their land, which You gave their fathers, the city You chose, and the house I have built for Your name,

Classification & Notes

Disparate

Text: Hebrew explicitly makes the enemies the captors; Greek directly addresses God as the one who deported them. This changes the stated agency without negating either source’s wider theology. Hebrew follows the traditional first-person read form I built at the end [Q8; R8].

Verse MT 8:49 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:49

then hear their prayer and supplication in heaven, Your established dwelling place, and uphold their cause.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:49

then hear from heaven, from Your prepared dwelling place,

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek lacks the explicit prayer-and-supplication objects and the uphold-their-cause clause. Its petition continues into verse 50; the missing words are not supplied from the repeated formula elsewhere.

Verse MT 8:50 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:50

Forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions by which they have transgressed against You. Grant them compassion before their captors, so that their captors may have compassion on them,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:50

and be merciful concerning their wrongs by which they sinned against You, and all their acts of faithlessness by which they were faithless to You. Grant them compassion before those who took them captive, so that their captors may have compassion on them,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew asks forgiveness for Your people and their transgressions; Greek names their wrongs and faithless acts without repeating Your people. Both request compassionate treatment from the captors, not a newly supplied condition of political release.

Verse MT 8:51 Similar

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:51

for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:51

for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.

Classification & Notes

Similar

Text: Greek adds land and uses an explicit smelting-furnace term. Both retain the furnace image for Egypt and the people’s belonging to God.

Verse MT 8:52 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:52

May Your eyes be open to Your servant’s supplication and the supplication of Your people Israel, to hear them whenever they call upon You.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:52

May Your eyes and ears be open to Your servant’s supplication and the supplication of Your people Israel, to hear them in everything for which they call upon You,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek adds ears to the eyes and frames the final phrase as everything in which they call. Both retain repeated supplication and the request to hear.

Verse MT 8:53 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:53

For You set them apart for Yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord YHWH.”

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:53

for You set them apart for Yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, Lord, Lord.”

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew has Adonai YHWH, rendered Lord YHWH; Greek repeats Lord and includes land. The double Greek address is not collapsed into a single title.

Verse 8:12–13 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

No MT counterpart

[No Hebrew counterpart at this location;
compare 8:12–13.]

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:53a

Then Solomon spoke concerning the house when he had finished building it: “The Lord made the sun known in heaven;
He spoke of dwelling in gloom: ‘Build My house, a splendid house for yourself, to dwell in newness.’ Is this not written in the Book of Song?”

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek places this poem after the prayer. It includes the sun, a command to build, newness, and an appeal to the Book of Song, unlike Hebrew 12–13’s first-person declaration and forever. The quoted speakers and the relationship of My to yourself are difficult; the punctuation and construction are provisional. No conjectural Hebrew reconstruction or alternate Greek reading replaces the checked edition.

Blessing and the feast of dedication

Editorial Christian reading: dedication calls for a whole heart, while its narrative details retain the different source sequences.

8:54–61 | Solomon blesses the assembly and calls for faithfulness

Verse MT 8:54 Same

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:54

When Solomon finished praying all this prayer and supplication to YHWH, he rose from before YHWH’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:54

When Solomon finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he rose from before the Lord’s altar, having knelt on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

Classification & Notes

Same

Text: Both now specify kneeling and rising, after verse 22’s standing introduction. The posture sequence is retained without inventing an unreported transition.

Verse MT 8:55 Same

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:55

He stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:55

He stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

Classification & Notes

Same

Text: The public blessing and audible delivery agree.

Verse MT 8:56 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:56

“Blessed be YHWH, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all He promised. Not one word has fallen short of all His good word which He spoke through His servant Moses.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:56

“Blessed be the Lord today, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all He promised. Not one word has failed among all His good words which He spoke through His servant Moses.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek adds today and has plural good words; Hebrew uses a falling image and collective good word.

Rabbinic: Rashi identifies the promised rest with Deuteronomy 12:10 [R8].

Verse MT 8:57 Similar

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:57

May YHWH our God be with us as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us or forsake us,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:57

May the Lord our God be with us as He was with our fathers. May He not abandon us or turn us away,

Classification & Notes

Similar

Text: Both ask continuing divine presence and non-abandonment. Greek’s second verb evokes turning away where Hebrew has forsaking.

Verse MT 8:58 Divergent

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:58

so that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments which He commanded our fathers.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:58

so that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and keep all His commandments and ordinances which He commanded our fathers.

Classification & Notes

Divergent

Text: Greek adds all before commandments but has two legal terms rather than Hebrew’s three, lacking a separate judgments term. The shared request for hearts inclined toward obedience remains intact.

Verse MT 8:59 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:59

May these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before YHWH, remain near YHWH our God day and night, so that He may uphold His servant’s cause and His people Israel’s cause, each day’s matter in its day,

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:59

May these words, with which I have pleaded before the Lord our God, remain near the Lord our God day and night, to uphold Your servant’s cause and Your people Israel’s cause, each day’s matter in its day,

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek adds our God to the first divine title and shifts to direct Your servant and Your people where Hebrew retains His. The repeated daily expression is preserved without substituting a modern schedule.

Verse MT 8:60 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:60

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that YHWH is God; there is no other.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:60

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord God, He is God, and there is no other.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek repeats God and explicitly He. Both retain the universal scope and exclusive divine confession.

Verse MT 8:61 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:61

Let your heart be wholly with YHWH our God, walking in His statutes and keeping His commandments, as it is today.”

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:61

Let our hearts be complete toward the Lord our God, walking devoutly in His ordinances and keeping His commandments, as it is today.”

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Hebrew addresses your collective heart; Greek includes the speaker in our hearts and adds devoutly. Wholly and complete concern fidelity here without importing a claim of sinless perfection.

8:62–66 | Sacrifices, feast, and dismissal

Verse MT 8:62 Similar

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:62

The king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before YHWH.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:62

The king and all the sons of Israel offered a sacrifice before the Lord.

Classification & Notes

Similar

Text: Hebrew explicitly says with him; Greek says sons of Israel. Both describe the shared sacrificial act; the collective sacrificial noun is not made into a conflicting count.

Verse MT 8:63 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:63

Solomon offered the peace offerings that he sacrificed to YHWH: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. Thus the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated YHWH’s house.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:63

King Solomon offered the peace offerings that he sacrificed to the Lord: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. Thus the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the Lord’s house.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek adds king to Solomon’s name. The large cattle and sheep totals and the dedication participants agree; no symbolic or logistical explanation is inserted into the translation.

Verse MT 8:64 Different

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:64

That day the king consecrated the middle of the court in front of YHWH’s house, for there he offered the burnt offering, grain offering, and fat of the peace offerings; the bronze altar before YHWH was too small to hold the burnt offering, grain offering, and fat of the peace offerings.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:64

That day the king consecrated the middle of the court in front of the Lord’s house, for there he offered the whole burnt offering, sacrifices, and fat of the peace offerings; the bronze altar before the Lord was too small to bear the whole burnt offering and the sacrifices of peace offerings.

Classification & Notes

Different

Text: Greek has broader sacrifices rather than grain offering and does not repeat fat in the final capacity clause.

Rabbinic: Rashi reports differing explanations of the consecrated court and altar [R8]; the main text does not choose a later reconstruction.

Verse MT 8:65 Disparate

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:65

At that time Solomon kept the feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt, before YHWH our God, seven days and seven days—fourteen days.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:65

That day Solomon kept the feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the River of Egypt, before the Lord our God in the house he had built, eating, drinking, and rejoicing before the Lord our God for seven days.

Classification & Notes

Disparate

Text: Hebrew explicitly totals fourteen days; Greek has seven and adds the house, eating, drinking, and rejoicing. Hebrew’s wadi differs from Greek river. No calendar reconstruction is used to remove the duration difference.

Verse MT 8:66 Disparate

Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth(Rabbinic Priority)

MT 8:66

On the eighth day he dismissed the people. They blessed the king and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for all the good that YHWH had done for His servant David and His people Israel.

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth(Saints Priority)

LXX 8:66

On the eighth day he dismissed the people and blessed them. They went, each to his tent, joyful and glad of heart for the good that the Lord had done for His servant David and His people Israel.

Classification & Notes

Disparate

Text: The blessing’s direction reverses: the people bless the king in Hebrew, and he blesses the people in Greek. Both retain the eighth-day dismissal even though the preceding feast durations differ; neither chronology is rewritten.