2 Chronicles 6:25

then shalt thou hearken out of heaven and shalt be merciful to the sins of thy people Israel, and thou shalt restore them to the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

In Context

24And if thy people Israel should be put to the worse before the enemy, if they should sin against thee, and then turn and confess to thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

26When heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall have sinned against thee, and when they shall pray toward this place, and praise thy name, and shall turn from their sins, because thou shalt afflict them;

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Cross References

Genesis 13:15for all the land which thou seest, I will give it to thee and to thy seed forever.

Joshua 21:43So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers: and they inherited it, and dwelt in it.

Psalms 106:40Contempt is poured upon their princes, 1 And he causes them to wander in a desert and trackless land. 1

Jeremiah 33:6then will I make this house as Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:13-42

12 And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: 13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven, 14 And said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest… Read the whole commentary →

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