1 Kings 8:41

Solomon turns to the foreigner who comes from afar because of God's name. It opens the temple's blessings to the nations.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Kgs 10:1–2And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
• Isa 56:3–7Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
• Exod 18:8–12And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
• Acts 8:27–40And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
• Matt 8:5And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
• Matt 15:22–28And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
• Isa 60:1–10Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
• Matt 12:42The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
• Ruth 2:11And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
• 2 Chr 6:32Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
• Matt 2:1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
• 2 Kgs 5:1–7Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
• Luke 17:18There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
• John 12:20And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
• Ruth 1:16And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
• Acts 10:1–4There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
• Matt 8:10–11When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
• 2 Kgs 5:16–17But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

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