1 Kings 8:41

THE MESSAGE

And don't forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation. People are going to be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonder-working power, who come to pray at this Temple. Listen from your home in heaven. Honor the prayers of the foreigner so that people all over the world will know who you are and what you're like and will live in reverent obedience before you, just as your own people Israel do; so they'll know that you personally make this Temple that I've built what it is.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israelbut has come from a distant landbecause of your name—

Hebrew Names Version
Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Yisra'el, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake

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;

English Standard Version
"Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake

New Century Version
"People who are not Israelites, foreigners from other lands, will hear about your greatness and power. They will come from far away to pray at this Temple.

New English Translation
"Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.

Amplified Bible
"Moreover, concerning a foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, but comes from a far (distant) country for the sake of Your name [to plead with You]

New American Standard Bible
"Also regarding the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country on account of Your name

Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer as touching the stranger that is not of thy people Israel, who shall come out of a farre countrey for thy Names sake,

Legacy Standard Bible
"Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, if he comes from a far country for Your name's sake

Contemporary English Version
Foreigners will hear about you and your mighty power, and some of them will come to live among your people Israel. If any of them pray toward this temple,

Complete Jewish Bible
"Also the foreigner who does not belong to your people Isra'el — when he comes from a distant country because of your reputation

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

Easy-to-Read Version
"People from other places will hear about your greatness and your power. They will come from far away to pray at this Temple.

George Lamsa Translation
Moreover concerning a stranger who is not of thy people Israel, but comes from a far country for thy names sake

Good News Translation
"When a foreigner who lives in a distant land hears of your fame and of the great things you have done for your people and comes to worship you and to pray at this Temple,

Lexham English Bible
Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name,

Literal Translation
And also, to the alien who is not of Your people Israel, and has come from a land afar off for Your name's sake,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan eny straunger, that is not of thy people of Israel, commeth out of a farre countre for thy names 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

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:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And likewyse if a straunger that is not of thy people Israel, come out of a farre countrey for thy names sake:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Moreover concerning the stranger that is not of Thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for Thy name's sake--

King James Version (1611)
Moreouer, concerning a stranger that is not of thy people Israel, but commeth out of a farre countrey, for thy Names sake;

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And for the stranger who is not of thy people,

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ferthermore and whanne an alien, which is not of thi puple Israel, cometh fro a fer lond for thi name; for thi grete name, and thi strong hond,

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 --

Update Bible Version
Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake

Webster's Bible Translation
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 shall come out of a far country for your name's sake

New King James Version
"Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name's sake

New Living Translation
"In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands because of your name,

New Life Bible
"When a stranger who is not of Your people Israel comes from a far country because of You,

New Revised Standard
"Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a distant land because of your name

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover also, unto the stranger, who is, not of thy people Israel, - but hath come in out of a far country, for the sake of thy Name, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name’s sake, (for they shall hear every where of thy great name, and thy mighty hand,

Revised Standard Version
"Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of thy people Israel, comes from a far country for thy name's sake

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name's sake

Contextual Overview

²²Before the entire congregation of Israel, Solomon took a position before the Altar, spread his hands out before heaven, and prayed, O God , God of Israel, there is no God like you in the skies above or on the earth below who unswervingly keeps covenant with his servants and relentlessly loves them as they sincerely live in obedience to your way. You kept your word to David my father, your personal word. You did exactly what you promised—every detail. The proof is before us today! Keep it up, God , O God of Israel! Continue to keep the promises you made to David my father when you said, "You'll always have a descendant to represent my rule on Israel's throne, on the condition that your sons are as careful to live obediently in my presence as you have." ²⁶ O God of Israel, let this all happen; confirm and establish it! ²⁷Can it be that God will actually move into our neighborhood? Why, the cosmos itself isn't large enough to give you breathing room, let alone this Temple I've built. Even so, I'm bold to ask: Pay attention to these my prayers, both intercessory and personal, O God , my God. Listen to my prayers, energetic and devout, that I'm setting before you right now. Keep your eyes open to this Temple night and day, this place of which you said, "My Name will be honored there," and listen to the prayers that I pray at this place. Listen from your home in heaven and when you hear, forgive. When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple, listen from heaven and act accordingly: Judge your servants, making the offender pay for his offense and setting the offended free of any charges. ³³When your people Israel are beaten by an enemy because they've sinned against you, but then turn to you and acknowledge your rule in prayers desperate and devout in this Temple, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, return them to the land you gave their ancestors. ³⁵When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this place, acknowledging your rule and quitting their sins because you have scourged them, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Then start over with them: Train them to live right and well; send rain on the land you gave your people as an inheritance. ³⁷When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, locust or beetle, or when an enemy attacks their defenses—calamity of any sort—any prayer that's prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, hearts penetrated by the disaster, hands and arms thrown out to this Temple for help, Listen from your home in heaven. Forgive and go to work on us. Give what each deserves, for you know each life from the inside (you're the only one with such "inside knowledge"!) so that they'll live before you in lifelong reverent and believing obedience on this land you gave our ancestors. ⁴¹And don't forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation. People are going to be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonder-working power, who come to pray at this Temple. Listen from your home in heaven. Honor the prayers of the foreigner so that people all over the world will know who you are and what you're like and will live in reverent obedience before you, just as your own people Israel do; so they'll know that you personally make this Temple that I've built what it is. ⁴⁴When your people go to war against their enemies at the time and place you send them and they pray to God toward the city you chose and this Temple I've built to honor your Name, Listen from heaven to what they pray and ask for, and do what's right for them. When they sin against you—and they certainly will; there's no one without sin!—and in anger you turn them over to the enemy and they are taken captive to the enemy's land, whether far or near, but repent in the country of their captivity and pray with changed hearts in their exile, "We've sinned; we've done wrong; we've been most wicked," and turn back to you heart and soul in the land of the enemy who conquered them, and pray to you toward their homeland, the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you chose, and this Temple I have built to the honor of your Name, Listen from your home in heaven to their prayers desperate and devout and do what is best for them. Forgive your people who have sinned against you; forgive their gross rebellions and move their captors to treat them with compassion. They are, after all, your people and your precious inheritance whom you rescued from the heart of that iron-smelting furnace, Egypt! ⁵²O be alert and attentive to the needy prayers of me, your servant, and your dear people Israel; listen every time they cry out to you! You handpicked them from all the peoples on earth to be your very own people, as you announced through your servant Moses when you, O God , in your masterful rule, delivered our ancestors from Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a stranger: 1 Kings 10:1, 1 Kings 10:2, Ruth 1:16, Ruth 2:11, 2 Chronicles 6:32, Isaiah 56:3-7, Matthew 8:5, Matthew 8:10, Matthew 8:11, Matthew 15:22-28, Luke 17:18, John 12:20, Acts 10:1-4

cometh out: 1 Kings 10:1, 1 Kings 10:2, Exodus 18:8-12, 2 Kings 5:1-7, 2 Kings 5:16, 2 Kings 5:17, Isaiah 60:1-10, Matthew 2:1, Matthew 12:42, Acts 8:27-40

Reciprocal: Joshua 9:6 - We be Joshua 9:9 - because 1 Chronicles 16:29 - bring Isaiah 60:9 - unto Isaiah 64:2 - to make Zephaniah 3:9 - that Zechariah 8:20 - there Mark 11:17 - Is it Romans 10:14 - shall they 1 Timothy 2:1 - supplications

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, concerning a stranger that is not of thy people Israel,.... One of another country, not belonging to any of the tribes of Israel, yet having some knowledge of, and disposition to, the true worship of God:

but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; as the Ethiopian eunuch did, to pray to him, worship him, and offer such sacrifices as were allowed a Gentile to do, Leviticus 22:18 led thereunto by the fame of him, as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nothing is more remarkable in the Mosaic Law than its liberality with regard to strangers, both in general Exodus 22:21; Leviticus 25:35; Deuteronomy 10:19 and in religious matters Numbers 15:14-16; Deuteronomy 31:12. It is quite in the spirit of these enactments that Solomon, having first prayed to God on behalf of his fellow-countrymen, should next go on to intercede for the strangers, and to ask for their prayers the same acceptance which he had previously begged for the prayers of faithful Israelites.

For thy name’s sake - i. e. “to visit the place where Thou hast set Thy name” (Compare Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:11, etc.).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 41. Moreover, concerning a stranger — The FIFTH case relates to heathens coming from other countries with the design to become proselytes to the true religion; that they might be received, blessed, and protected as the true Israelites, that the name of Jehovah might be known over the face of the earth.