1 Kings 8:41

The stranger and outcast Witness and mission

³⁹ Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

⁴⁰ That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;

⁴² (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;

⁴³ Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
KJV: Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;
WEB: “Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake
ASV: 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
DARBY: 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
BLB: And also concerning a foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, and he has come from a far country for the sake of Your name—

ÅB: Også om en fremmed, en som ikke er av ditt folk Israel, men kommer fra et fjernt land for ditt navns skyld
OTB: Også angående den fremmede som ikke er av Ditt folk Israel, når han kommer fra et fjernt land for Ditt navns skyld
B1930: Også om en fremmed, en som ikke er av ditt folk Israel, men kommer fra et fjernt land for ditt navns skyld

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Kings 10:1–2
And 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.
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Isaiah 56:3–7
Neither 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.
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Acts 8:27–40
And 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,
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Exodus 18:8–12
And 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.
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Acts 10:1–4
There was a certain man in Cæsarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
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John 12:20
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
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Ruth 2:11
And 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.
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Matthew 15:22–28
And, 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.
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