First Kings 8:50-51

⁵⁰Forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and make them objects of compassion before their conquerors, and cause their conquerors to have compassion on them.

⁵¹They are your people whom you have chosen, whom you rescued out of Egypt as if from the middle of a furnace where iron is forged.