2 Chronicles 6:21

Listen to me when I pray, and listen to your Israeli people when they pray. Listen from heaven, where you live; and when you hear us pray, forgive us.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

In Context

20Please protect this temple day and night. This is the place about which you have said, ‘I will always be there.’ Please listen to my prayer about this place.

22“If someone is accused of doing something wrong to another person, and they bring him to testify in front of your altar outside this holy temple, and if he says, ‘I did not do that; may God punish me if I am not telling the truth,’

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:27The priests and the other descendants of Levi stood up to bless the people, and God heard them in heaven, the holy place where he lives.

Psalms 85:2You forgave us, your people, for the sins that we had committed; you pardoned us for all our sins [DOU]. (Think about that!)

Psalms 130:3Yahweh, if you kept a record of the sins that we have committed, not one of us [RHQ] would escape from being condemned and punished

Isaiah 18:4Listen because Yahweh has told me this: “I will watch quietly from where I live. I will watch as quietly as [SIM] the heat waves shimmer as they rises on a hot summer day, as quietly as the dew forms on the ground during harvest time.”

Isaiah 44:22I have gotten rid of your sins like [SIM] the wind blows away a cloud. It is as though your transgressions were a morning mist [SIM] that I have blown away. Return to me because I have rescued you.”

Daniel 9:19Lord, listen to us! Lord, forgive us! Lord, this city and these people belong to you, so we plead with you to heed what we are saying and act to help us right now, ◄for your own sake/in order that people will know that you are very great►!

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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