2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

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In The King James Version

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

In Context

13If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

15Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:40And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

Deuteronomy 4:29But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

2 Chronicles 6:27Then give ear from heaven, so that the sin of your servants and the sin of your people Israel may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.

2 Chronicles 6:37And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

2 Chronicles 20:4And Judah came together to make prayer for help from the Lord; from every town of Judah they came to give worship to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:18Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 7:13-22

God's Promises to Solomon. ( b. c. 1004.) 12 And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin,… Read the whole commentary →

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