41. “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake
42. (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays towards this house;
43. hear in heaven, 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, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
44. “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord towards the city which you have chosen, and towards the house which I have built for your name;
45. then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
46. If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
47. yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
48. if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you towards their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;