so that they may fear you all the days they live on the land you gave our ancestors.
1 Kings 8:41 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name – Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Moreover, concerning a stranger who is not of Your people Israel but comes from a far country for the sake of Your name [and Your active Presence]– American Standard Version (1901) 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 Common English Bible Listen also to the immigrant who isn’t from your people Israel but who comes from a distant country because of your reputation— Catholic Public Domain Version Moreover, the foreigner too, who is not of your people Israel, when he will have arrived from a distant land because of your name, for they shall hear about your great name, and your strong hand, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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, |
so that they may fear you all the days they live on the land you gave our ancestors.
for they will hear of your great name, strong hand, and outstretched arm, and will come and pray towards this temple –
Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your strong hand and outstretched arm: when he comes and prays towards this temple,
At that time Jerusalem will be called The Lord’s Throne, and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord in Jerusalem. They will cease to follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
The same law and the same ordinance will apply to both you and the foreigner who resides with you.’
You are to have the same law for the person who acts in error, whether he is an Israelite or a foreigner who resides among you.
The queen of the south will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look #– #something greater than Solomon is here.
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, pleading with him,
Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.
But Ruth replied: Don’t plead with me to abandon you or to return and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
Boaz answered her, ‘Everything you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband’s death has been fully reported to me: how you left your father and mother and your native land, and how you came to a people you didn’t previously know.