“then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.