1 Kings 8:41

Solomon's Prayer To Yahweh

⁴⁰ so that they may fear You
all the days they live on the land
You gave our ancestors. ⁴¹ Even for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel
but has come from a distant land
because of Your name—
⁴² for they will hear of Your great name,
mighty hand, and outstretched arm,
and will come and pray toward this temple—

Far Country

Now Concerning

Great Things

When He Comes

Israel

1 Kings 10:1-2

The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of Yahweh and came to test him with difficult questions.

Exodus 18:8-12

Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that confronted them on the way, and how the Lord delivered them.

Ruth 1:16

But Ruth replied:

Do not persuade me to leave you
or go back 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.

Ruth 2:11

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 the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you didn’t previously know.

2 Kings 5:1-7

Naaman, commander of the army for the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded because through him, the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was a brave warrior, but he had a skin disease.

2 Kings 5:16-17

But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, I stand before Him. I will not accept it.” Naaman urged him to accept it, but he refused.

2 Chronicles 6:32

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 mighty hand and outstretched arm:
when he comes and prays toward this temple,

Isaiah 56:3-7

No foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord
should say,
“The Lord will exclude me from His people”;
and the eunuch should not say,
“Look, I am a dried-up tree.”

Isaiah 60:1-10

Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord shines over you.

Matthew 2:1

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived unexpectedly in Jerusalem,

Matthew 8:5

When He entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him,

Matthew 8:10-11

Hearing this, Jesus was amazed and said to those following Him, “I assure you: I have not found anyone in Israel with so great a faith!

Matthew 12:42

The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment 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!

Matthew 15:22-28

Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly tormented by a demon.”

Luke 17:18

Didn’t any return to give glory to God except this foreigner?”

John 12:20

Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.

Acts 8:27-40

So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem

Acts 10:1-4

There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment.