1 Kings 8:41

There will be some foreigners who do not belong to your Israeli people who have come here from countries far away because they have heard that you are very great and that you perform great miracles. If they come here to this temple to worship you and pray,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;

In Context

40in order that your people may then have an awesome respect for you, all the years that they live in this land that you gave to our ancestors.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:8Moses/I told Jethro everything that Yahweh had done to the king and all the other people in Egypt for the sake of the Israeli people. He/I also told him about the troubles/problems they/we had experienced on the way, and how Yahweh had helped them/us.

Numbers 15:29You Israelis and all the foreigners who live among you must obey these same instructions.

Ruth 2:11Boaz replied, “People have told me all about what you have done for your mother-in-law. They told me that you left your parents and your homeland, and you came here to live among people whom you did not know before.

2 Kings 5:1A man named Naaman was the commander of the army of Syria. Yahweh had enabled him to win many victories/battles. He was a great warrior, and as a result the king of Syria greatly respected him. But he had ◄leprosy/a dreaded skin disease►.

2 Chronicles 6:32“There will be some foreigners who do not belong to your Israeli people who have come here from countries far away because they have heard that you are very great and that you perform great miracles. If they turn toward this temple and pray,

Isaiah 56:6I will also bless those who are not Israelis, who ◄join themselves to/believe in► me, and who serve me and worship and love me, and who obey my laws about the Sabbath, and who faithfully obey all the other laws of the agreement that I made with the Israeli people.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 8:23-54

Solomon's Prayer. ( b. c. 1003.) 22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: 23 And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand,… Read the whole commentary →

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