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 10:1–2When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
• Isa 56:3–7Let no foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.” Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
• Exod 18:8–12Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
• Acts 8:27–40He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
• Matt 8:5When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,
• Matt 15:22–28Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
• Isa 60:1–10“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Matt 12:42The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
• Ruth 2:11Boaz answered her, “I have been fully told about all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.
• 2 Chr 6:32“Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they come and pray toward this house;
• Matt 2:1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
• 2 Kgs 5:1–7Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
• Luke 17:18Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?”
• John 12:20Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
• Ruth 1:16Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
• Acts 10:1–4Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
• Matt 8:10–11When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, “Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.
• 2 Kgs 5:16–17But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.

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