1 Kings 8:41

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“And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—”

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BSBPD

“And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“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”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“`And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake--”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Kings 8:41 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 18:8Then 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 they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
  2. Numbers 15:16The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
  3. Numbers 15:29You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
  4. Ruth 1:16But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following 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.
  5. Ruth 2:11Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
  6. 1 Kings 10:1Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.
  7. 2 Kings 5:1Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
  8. 2 Kings 5:16But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.” And although Naaman urged him to accept it, he refused.
  9. 2 Chronicles 6:32And as 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,
  10. Isaiah 56:3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
  11. Isaiah 56:6And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants— all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—
  12. Isaiah 56:7I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
  13. Isaiah 60:1Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
  14. Jeremiah 3:17At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
  15. Matthew 2:1After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
  16. Matthew 8:5When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came and pleaded with Him,
  17. Matthew 8:10When Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those following Him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
  18. Matthew 12:42The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
  19. Matthew 15:22And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
  20. Luke 17:18Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”
  21. John 12:20Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
  22. Acts 8:27So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
  23. Acts 10:1At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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