When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,<n id="1" /> as they acknowledge their intense pain<n id="2" /> and spread out their hands toward this temple,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation<n id="1" /> and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds;<n id="2" /> they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the <sc>Lordsc>, saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!&#8221;p>

then I will remove you<n id="1" /> from my land I have given you,<n id="2" /> I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,<n id="3" /> and I will make you<n id="4" /> an object of mockery and ridicule<n id="5" /> among all the nations.

&#8216;If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack,<n id="1" /> judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple.<n id="2" /> We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will<n id="3" /> hear and deliver us.&#8217;

They handed it over to the construction foremen<n id="1" /> assigned to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Josiah had done all this for the temple,<n id="1" /> King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River.<n id="2" /> Josiah marched out to oppose him.

Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners.<n id="1" /> Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation,<n id="2" /> obey<n id="3" /> you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.<n id="4" />p>