2 Chronicles 6:21

So listen to the requests of your servant and of your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, listen from the place where you live, from the heavens; and when you listen, forgive.

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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

20May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, the place where you promised to put your name. May you listen to the prayer your servant prays toward this place.

22If a man sins against his neighbor and is required to swear an oath, and if he comes and swears an oath before your altar in this house,

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:27Then the priests, the Levites, rose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer went up to heaven, the holy place where God lives.

Psalms 85:2You have forgiven the sin of your people; 1 you have covered all their sin. Selah 1

Psalms 130:3If you, Yahweh, would mark iniquities, 1 Lord, who could stand? 1

Isaiah 18:4This is what Yahweh said to me, “I will quietly observe from my home, 1 like the simmering heat in sunshine, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest. 1

Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your rebellious deeds, and like a cloud, your sins; 1 return to me, for I have redeemed you. 1

Daniel 9:19Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, pay attention and take action! For your own sake, do not delay, my God, for your city and your people are called by your name.”

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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