2 Chronicles 6:19
Good News Translation
LORD my God, I am your servant. Listen to my prayer and grant the requests I make to you.

New Revised Standard Version
Regard your servant’s prayer and his plea, O LORD my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you.

Contemporary English Version
But I ask you to answer my prayer.

New American Bible
Regard kindly the prayer and petition of your servant, LORD, my God, and listen to the cry of supplication which I, your servant, utter before you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest hear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest hear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.

Have respect

1 Kings 8:28 But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, O Lord, my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee this day:

Psalm 74:20 Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

Psalm 130:2 Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

Daniel 9:17-19 Now, therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of thy servant, and his prayers: and shew thy face upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate, for thy own sake. . . .

Luke 18:1-7 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint, . . .

to hearken

Psalm 4:1 Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David. [2] When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

Psalm 5:1,2 Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for David. [2] Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry. . . .

Psalm 20:1-3 Unto the end. A psalm for David. [2] May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee. . . .

John 17:20 And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
18Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less this house, which I have built? 19But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest hear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.20That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night, upon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called upon,…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:18
Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less this house, which I have built?

2 Chronicles 6:20
That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night, upon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called upon,

2 Chronicles 6:18
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