40. Do this so that they may revere you all the days they live on the land that you gave to our ancestors.
41. Listen also to the immigrant who isn’t from your people Israel but who comes from a distant country because of your reputation—
42. because they will hear of your great reputation, your great power, and your outstretched arm. When the immigrant comes and prays toward this temple,
43. then listen from heaven, where you live, and do everything the immigrant asks. Do this so that all the people of the earth may know your reputation and revere you, as your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I have built bears your name.
44. When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you may send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city you have chosen and toward this temple that I have built for your name,
45. then listen from heaven to their prayer and request and do what is right for them.
46. When they sin against you (for there is no one who doesn’t sin) and you become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy who takes them away as prisoners to enemy territory, whether distant or nearby,