In a heartfelt prayer, he said: “Also to the foreigner, who is no part of your people Israel and who actually comes from a distant land by reason of your name (for they shall hear of your great name and of your strong hand and of your stretched - out arm), and he actually comes and prays toward this house, may you yourself listen from the heavens, your established place of dwelling, and you must do according to all that for which the foreigner calls to you; in order that all the peoples of the earth may get to know your name so as to fear you the same as your people Israel do. ” ​ — 1 Ki.
כי ישמעון את שמך הגדול ואת ידך החזקה וזרועך הנטויה, ובא והתפלל אל הבית הזה. אתה תשמע [מן] השמיים, מכון שבתך, ועשית ככל אשר יקרא אליך הנוכרי, למען ידעון כל עמי הארץ את שמך ליראה אותך כעמך ישראל ” (‏ מל ” א ח ’: 41 – 43‏) .‏