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Summary

Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

Bible References

The stranger

Exodus 12:48
"When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land -- but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied, "Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God.
Ruth 2:11
Boaz replied to her, "I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband -- how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.
1 Kings 8:41
"Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.
1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions.
Isaiah 56:3
No foreigner who becomes a follower of the Lord should say, 'The Lord will certainly exclude me from his people.' The eunuch should not say, 'Look, I am like a dried-up tree.'"
Matthew 2:1
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem
Matthew 8:10
When Jesus heard this he was amazed and said to those who followed him, "I tell you the truth, I have not found such faith in anyone in Israel!
John 10:16
I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.
John 12:20
Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.
Acts 8:27
So he got up and went. There he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship,
Acts 10:1
Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.
Ephesians 2:12
that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Is come

Exodus 18:8
Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel's sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.
Joshua 2:9
She said to the men, "I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. We are absolutely terrified of you, and all who live in the land are cringing before you.
Joshua 9:9
They told him, "Your subjects have come from a very distant land because of the reputation of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt
2 Kings 5:3
She told her mistress, "If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his skin disease."
Isaiah 60:1
"Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you!
Zechariah 8:22
Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord who rules over all and to ask his favor.
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 now, something greater than Solomon is here!

Thy mighty

Exodus 3:19
But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even under force.
Exodus 13:14
In the future, when your son asks you 'What is this?' you are to tell him, 'With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.
Psalm 89:13
Your arm is powerful, your hand strong, your right hand victorious.

If they come

Isaiah 66:20
They will bring back all your countrymen from all the nations as an offering to the Lord. They will bring them on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels to my holy hill Jerusalem," says the Lord, "just as the Israelites bring offerings to the Lord's temple in ritually pure containers.
Zechariah 14:16
Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles.
Acts 2:10
Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

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