1 Kings 8:42

New Living Translation

for they will hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for they will hear of your great name,strong hand, and outstretched arm,and will come and pray toward this temple—

Hebrew Names Version
(for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;

King James Version
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

English Standard Version
(for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,

New English Translation
When they hear about your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds, they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

Amplified Bible
(for they will hear of Your great name, Your strong hand [of power], and outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house (temple),

New American Standard Bible
(for they will hear of Your great name and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house,

Geneva Bible (1587)
(When they shal heare of thy great name, and of thy mightie hande, and of thy stretched out arme) and shall come and pray in this house,

Legacy Standard Bible
(for they will hear of Your great name and Your strong hand, and of Your outstretched arm); so if he comes and prays toward this house,

Complete Jewish Bible
(for they will hear of your great reputation, your mighty hand and your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house;

Darby Translation
(for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thy stretched-out arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house,

George Lamsa Translation
(When they shall hear of thy great name and of thy strong hand and of thy stretched out arm), when he shall come before thee and pray in this house;

Lexham English Bible
(for they shall hear of your great name and your powerful hand and your outstretched arm), and he shall come and pray toward this house,

Literal Translation
(for they shall hear of Your great name, and of Your strong hand, and of Your stretched out arm, and he shall have come in and prayed toward this house,)

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(for they shall heare of thy greate name, and of thy mightie hade, and of thy outstretched arme) and commeth to make his prayer in this house,

American Standard Version
(for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thine outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;

Bible in Basic English
(For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm;) when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
(For they shal heare of thy great name, and of thy mightie hand, & of thy stretched out arme) and shall come and pray in this house:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
for they shall hear of Thy great name, and of Thy mighty hand, and of Thine outstretched arm--when he shall come and pray toward this house;

King James Version (1611)
(For they shall heare of thy great Name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arme) when hee shall come and pray towards this house:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
when they shall come and pray toward this place,

English Revised Version
(for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

Berean Standard Bible
for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm-when he comes and prays toward this house,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thin arm `holdun forth schal be herd euery where; therfor whanne he cometh, and preieth in this place,

Young's Literal Translation
(for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm) -- and he hath come in and prayed towards this house,

Update Bible Version
(for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;

Webster's Bible Translation
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy out-stretched arm;) when he shall come and pray towards this house;

World English Bible
(for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;

New King James Version
(for they will hear of Your great name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this temple,

New Life Bible
(for they will hear of Your great name and Your powerful hand and Your long arm,) when he comes and prays toward this house,

New Revised Standard
—for they shall hear of your great name, your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm—when a foreigner comes and prays toward this house,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
(for they will certainly hear of thy great Name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched-out arm, - and so will come in and pray towards this house),

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thy stretched out arm) so when he shall come, and shall pray in this place,

Revised Standard Version
(for they shall hear of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and of thy outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
(for they will hear of Your great name and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house,

Contextual Overview

²² Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire community of Israel. He lifted his hands toward heaven, ²³ and he prayed, "O Lord , God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven above or on the earth below. You keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion. ²⁴ You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today. ²⁵ "And now, O Lord , God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, ‘If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow me as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.' ²⁶ Now, O God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David, my father. ²⁷ "But will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built! ²⁸ Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you today. ²⁹ May you watch over this Temple night and day, this place where you have said, ‘My name will be there.' May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place. ³⁰ May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive. ³¹ "If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar in this Temple,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For they shall: Exodus 15:14, Deuteronomy 4:6, Joshua 2:10, Joshua 2:11, Joshua 9:9, Joshua 9:10, 2 Chronicles 32:31, Daniel 2:47, Daniel 3:28, Daniel 4:37

great name: Exodus 3:13-16, Exodus 34:5-7, Joshua 7:9, Psalms 86:8, Psalms 86:9, Ezekiel 20:9

thy strong hand: Exodus 3:19, Exodus 9:15, Exodus 13:14, Deuteronomy 3:24, Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 11:2, Deuteronomy 11:3, 2 Kings 17:36, Psalms 89:13, Psalms 136:12, Isaiah 51:9, Isaiah 63:12, Jeremiah 31:11, Jeremiah 32:17

when he shall: Isaiah 66:19, Isaiah 66:20, Jeremiah 3:19, Zechariah 14:16, Acts 8:27

Reciprocal: Joshua 4:24 - all the people Jeremiah 32:21 - with a strong Jonah 2:4 - toward Zechariah 8:23 - we have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

(For they shall hear of thy great name,.... Of his great name, Jehovah; of him as the eternal, immutable, and self-existent Being; of the perfections of his nature, as displayed in his mighty works:

and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm); which had done formerly such mighty works in Egypt, at the Red sea, in the wilderness, in the land of Canaan, in the times of David, and still under the reign of Solomon, and even in future ages, besides the works of creation and providence in general:

when he shall come and pray towards this house; not being admitted into it, only into a court, which in later times was called the court of the Gentiles, see Acts 21:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great name - A somewhat rare expression. It does not occur at all in the Pentateuch; though “mighty hand” and the “stretched out arm” are so frequent Exodus 6:6; Exodus 13:9; Deuteronomy 9:29 : only once in Joshua Joshua 7:9; and twice in the Psalms Psalms 76:1; Psalms 99:3. About the time of the captivity the use of the phrase became more common Ezekiel 36:23; Jeremiah 10:6; Jeremiah 44:26.