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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Kings 8: 40 that they may fear Thee all the days that they live in the land which Thou gavest unto our fathers.
1_Kings 8: 41 Moreover concerning the stranger that is not of Thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for Thy name's sake--
1_Kings 8: 42 for they shall hear of Thy great name, and of Thy mighty hand, and of Thine outstretched arm--when he shall come and pray toward this house;
1_Kings 8: 43 hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to Thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee, as doth Thy people Israel, and that they may know that Thy name is called upon this house which I have built.
1_Kings 8: 44 If Thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way Thou shalt send them, and they pray unto the LORD toward the city which Thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Thy name;
1_Kings 8: 45 then hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
1_Kings 8: 46 If they sin against Thee--for there is no man that sinneth not--and Thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near;
1_Kings 8: 47 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn back, and make supplication unto Thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying: 
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