1 KINGS 8:43 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.”
This verse articulates the theological purpose of foreign conversion: that outsiders might come to know God's name and recognize His power operative through Israel. The phrase
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