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.
Tempļa veltīšanas lūgšanā Salamans sacīja: ” Arī svešnieks, kas pats nav no manas tautas, no Israēla,.. ja tāds tad nonāktu un pielūgtu Tevi šinī namā, Tad uzklausi ir viņu debesīs, savā dzīvojamā mājoklī, un dari Tu visu tā, kā Tevi svešnieks ir lūdzis, lai visas zemes tautas atzīst tavu vārdu, lai tie Tevi bītos gluži tāpat kā tava tauta Israēls. ” ( 1.