1 Kings 8:42 (YLT)

Passage

(for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm) --and he hath come in and prayed towards this house,

Nearby Context

1 Kings 8:40 so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

1 Kings 8:41 `And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake--

1 Kings 8:42 (for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm) --and he hath come in and prayed towards this house,

1 Kings 8:43 Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name hath been called on this house which I have builded.

1 Kings 8:44 `When Thy people doth go out to battle against its enemy, in the way that Thou dost send them, and they have prayed unto Jehovah the way of the city which thou hast fixed on, and of the house which I have builded for Thy name;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "hear", "great", "name", "strong", "hand", "stretched-out", "hath", and "come". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "hear" and "great", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 41's "And also unto the stranger who is..." into verse 43's "Thou dost hear in the heavens the...", so "hear" and "great" belong inside that flow. In 1 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "hear" and "great" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.