42 (for they will hear of Your great name (A)and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house, 43 hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order (B)that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to [a]fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that [b]this house which I have built is called by Your name.

44 “When Your people go out to battle against [c]their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and (C)they pray to the Lord [d]toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:43 Or reverence
  2. 1 Kings 8:43 Lit Your name is called upon this house which I have built
  3. 1 Kings 8:44 Lit his
  4. 1 Kings 8:44 Lit in the way of