2 Chronicles 6:23

listen from the heavens and act. Judge your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing what he has done upon his own head. Declare the innocent not guilty and give to him according to his righteousness.

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In The King James Version

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

In Context

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,

24When your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn back to you, confess your name, pray, and request forgiveness before you in this temple—

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Cross References

Numbers 5:27When he gives her the water to drink, if she is defiled because she has committed a sin against her husband, then the water that brings the curse will enter her and become bitter. Her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away. The woman will be cursed among her people.

2 Kings 9:26'Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares Yahweh—and I will surely make you pay for it on this field—declares Yahweh. Now then, pick him up and throw him on this field, according to the word of Yahweh.”

Proverbs 1:31They will eat the fruit of their ways, 1 and with the fruit of their schemes they will be filled. 1

Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous person that it will be well, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds. 1

Jeremiah 51:56For the destroyers have come against her—against Babylon!—and her warriors have been captured. 1 Their bows are broken, for Yahweh is the God of vengeance; he will surely carry out this repayment. 1

Romans 2:9God will bring tribulation and distress on every human soul that has practiced evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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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