2 Chronicles 6:32

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;

The stranger

Is come

Matthew 12:42

Thy mighty

Exodus 3:19

Exodus 13:14

Psalm 89:13

If they come

Isaiah 66:20

Zechariah 14:16

Acts 2:10

Bible References

The stranger

The uncircumcised man may not eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor Jehovah, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival.

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.

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.

When a foreigner who lives in a distant land hears of your fame and of the great things you have done for your people and comes to worship you and to pray at this Temple,

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

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.'

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

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

I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I will also bring them. They will hear my voice and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

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

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.

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

You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.

Is come

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.

She said to the men: I know Jehovah has given you the land and the terror of you has fallen on us. All the inhabitants of the land are afraid of you.

They said: From a very far country, your servants came because of the name of Jehovah your God, for we have heard about him and all he did in Egypt;

She said to her mistress: I wish my master could go to the prophet who lives in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.

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

Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to request the favor of Jehovah.

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!

Thy mighty

I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion.

In the future when your children ask you, 'What does this mean?' tell them: 'Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring us out of slavery in Egypt.''

You have a strong arm! Your hand is mighty (power by Holy Spirit); your right hand is exalted.

If they come

They will bring all your brothers from every nation like a grain offering to Jehovah. They will come on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules and camels to my holy mountain, Jerusalem, declares Jehovah. They will come like the people of Israel who bring their grain offerings in clean dishes to Jehovah's temple.

Every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,