1 Kings 8:41 “And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come…”

1 Kings 8:41

And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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;

World English Bible

“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake

American Standard Version

Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name’s sake

Geneva Bible 1599

Moreouer as touching the stranger that is not of thy people Israel, who shall come out of a farre countrey for thy Names sake,

Darby Translation

And as to the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake

Young's Literal Translation

'And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake —

Bible in Basic English

And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel; when he comes from a far country because of the glory of your name:

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Cross references

“a stranger”

Isaiah 56:3–7 Ruth 1:16 Ruth 2:11 2 Chronicles 6:32 Matthew 8:5 Matthew 15:22–28

Isaiah 56:3–7 · BSB

Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

Ruth 1:16 · BSB

But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

Ruth 2:11 · BSB

Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you di…

2 Chronicles 6:32 · BSB

And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

Matthew 8:5 · BSB

When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came and pleaded with Him,

Matthew 15:22–28 · BSB

And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”

“cometh out”

Exodus 18:8–12 Acts 8:27–40 2 Kings 5:1–7 Isaiah 60:1–10 Matthew 2:1 Matthew 12:42

Exodus 18:8–12 · BSB

Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

Acts 8:27–40 · BSB

So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

2 Kings 5:1–7 · BSB

Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a lep…

Isaiah 60:1–10 · BSB

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

Matthew 2:1 · BSB

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

Matthew 12:42 · BSB

The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

40so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

42for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

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