In his dedication prayer, Solomon said: “Also to the foreigner, who is no part of your people Israel and who actually comes from a distant land... 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 Kings 8: 41 - 43.
وصلّى في هذا البيت فاسمع انت من السماء مكان سكناك وافعل حسب كل ما يدعو به اليك الاجنبي لكي يعلم كل شعوب الارض اسمك فيخافوك كشعبك اسرائيل » .‏ —‏ ١ ملوك ٨ :‏ ​ ٤١ -‏ ٤٣‏ .‏