Dear Michael, >1st Kings 8:38,33. Versus the non-use of el in 1st Kings 8:44,46. HH: Did you mean verse 48 instead of verse 46? There is use of el in verse 46, and you mentioned verse 48 earlier. DRK is functioning as a preposition and so replaces el. El can be written as )L. Yours, Harold Holmyard