“Likewise when foreigners, who are not of your people Israel, come from a distant land because of your name
1 Kings 8:42 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 —for they shall hear of your great name, your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm—when foreigners come and pray toward this house, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 (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; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they will hear of Your great name (Your revelation of Yourself), Your strong hand, and outstretched arm–when he shall pray in [or toward] this house, American Standard Version (1901) (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; Common English Bible because they will hear of your great reputation, your great power, and your outstretched arm. When the immigrant comes and prays toward this temple, Catholic Public Domain Version and your outstretched arm everywhere: so when he arrives and prays in this place, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thy stretched out arm,) so when he shall come, and shall pray in this place: |
“Likewise when foreigners, who are not of your people Israel, come from a distant land because of your name
but you shall worship the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.
So now, O Lord our God, save us, I pray you, from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God alone.”
So also in the matter of the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.
with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever;
When in the future your child asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall answer, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
Moses said to the people, “Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, because the Lord brought you out from there by strength of hand; no leavened bread shall be eaten.
The peoples heard; they trembled; pangs seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
I know, however, that the king of Egypt will not let you go except by a mighty hand.
Say therefore to the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
Indeed, by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord! Awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago! Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
who caused his glorious arm to march at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,
It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the people and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever I please.
I thought how I would set you among my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,” and would not turn from following me.
For the Lord has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.
“Ah Lord God! It is you who made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
As I live, says the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
The king said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery!”
Nebuchadnezzar said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him. They disobeyed the king’s command and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.
Then all who survive of the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Festival of Booths.
An alien who lives with you or who takes up permanent residence among you and wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord, shall do as you do.
So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship
‘O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your might. What god in heaven or on earth can perform deeds and mighty acts like yours?
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
You must observe them and perform them, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!’
so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty and so that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”
The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and surround us and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will you do for your great name?”