1 Kings 8:43
Good News Translation
listen to his prayer. In heaven, where you live, hear him and do what he asks you to do, so that all the peoples of the world may know you and obey you, as your people Israel do. Then they will know that this Temple I have built is the place where you are to be worshiped.

New Revised Standard Version
then hear in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so that they may know that your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.

Contemporary English Version
listen from your home in heaven and answer their prayers. Then everyone on earth will worship you, just like your people Israel, and they will know that I have built this temple to honor you.

New American Bible
listen in heaven, the place of your enthronement. Do all that the foreigner asks of you, that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, may revere you as do your people Israel, and may know that your name has been invoked upon this house that I have built.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place, and do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee: that all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy people Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this house, which I have built.

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Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place, and do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee: that all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy people Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this house, which I have built.

that all the people

1 Samuel 17:46 This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth: that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

2 Kings 19:19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the only God.

2 Chronicles 6:33 Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling place, and do all that which that stranger shall call upon thee for: that all the people of the earth may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy people Israel, and may know, that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have built.

Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.

Psalm 67:2 That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations.

Psalm 72:10,11 The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: . . .

Psalm 86:9 All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

Isaiah 11:9 They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.

fear thee

Psalm 102:15 All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

Psalm 117:1-2 O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. . . .

1 Kings 8:29 That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
42And thy stretched out arm) so when he shall come, and shall pray in this place, 43Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place, and do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee: that all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy people Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this house, which I have built.44If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way soever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of the city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have built to thy name:…
Cross References
Joshua 4:23
The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over: [24] As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we passed through:

Joshua 4:24
That all the people of the earth may learn the most mighty hand of the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God for ever.

1 Samuel 17:46
This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth: that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

1 Kings 8:60
That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

1 Kings 18:36
And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the prophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these things.

2 Kings 19:19
Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the only God.

1 Chronicles 16:8
Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make known his doings among the nations.

Psalm 33:14
From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth.

Psalm 67:2
That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations.

Psalm 102:15
All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

Jeremiah 25:29
For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

1 Kings 8:42
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