1 Kings 8:41

Solomon's Prayer To Yahweh

⁴⁰ so that your people may obey you all the time they live in the land you gave to our ancestors. ⁴¹ “Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name’s sake ⁴² For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm. When he comes to pray in this house:

Far Country

Now Concerning

Great Things

When He Comes

Israel

1 Kings 10:1-2

The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame. She traveled to Jerusalem to test him with difficult questions.

Exodus 18:8-12

Moses told his father-in-law everything Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel. He talked about all the hardships they had on the way, and how Jehovah saved them.

Ruth 1:16

Ruth replied: Do not ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

Ruth 2:11

Boaz answered: I have heard about everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband. You went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.

2 Kings 5:1-7

Naaman was a great soldier. He was commander of the Syrian army and highly respected and esteemed by the king of Syria (Aram). Jehovah gave victory to the Syrian forces through Naaman. He suffered from a dreaded skin disease.

2 Kings 5:16-17

Elisha the prophet answered: By the living God Jehovah whom I serve, I swear that I will not accept a gift. Naaman insisted that he accept it, but he would not.

2 Chronicles 6:32

People who are not Israelites will come from distant countries because of your great name, mighty hand, and powerful arm. When they come to pray facing this Temple,

Isaiah 56:3-7

No foreigner bound to Jehovah should say: 'Jehovah will surely exclude (separate) me from his people. No eunuch should complain: I am only a dry tree.'

Isaiah 60:1-10

Arise O woman and shine! Your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah beams on you.

Matthew 2:1

Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod. Astrologers arrived in Jerusalem from the east.

Matthew 8:5

When he entered Capernaum, a centurion (captain of one hundred men) approached him.

Matthew 8:10-11

When Jesus heard it, he was amazed, and said to the crowd: I tell you, I have not found such great faith in Israel.

Matthew 12:42

The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it. She came from the ends of the earth to hear the Wisdom of Solomon. Someone greater than Solomon is here!

Matthew 15:22-28

A woman of Canaan came crying and saying: Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.

Luke 17:18

Were the others not willing to return with this foreigner to give glory to God?

John 12:20

Now there were Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

Acts 8:27-40

He went and an Ethiopian eunuch (government official), a man of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Acts 10:1-4

There was a man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Band.