2 Chronicles 6:21
Good News Translation
Hear my prayers and the prayers of your people Israel when they face this place and pray. In your home in heaven hear us and forgive us.

New Revised Standard Version
And hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; may you hear from heaven your dwelling place; hear and forgive.

Contemporary English Version
I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you, and so whenever any of us look toward this temple and pray, answer from your home in heaven and forgive our sins.

New American Bible
Listen to the petition of your servant and of your people Israel which they offer toward this place. Listen, from the place of your enthronement, heaven, and listen and forgive.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.

make [heb] pray

2 Chronicles 6:39 Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling place, their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although they have sinned:

2 Chronicles 30:27 And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling place of heaven.

Job 22:12-14 Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars? . . .

Psalm 123:1 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Matthew 6:9 Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

forgive

Psalm 85:2,3 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins. . . .

Psalm 130:3,4 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it. . . .

Isaiah 43:25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Daniel 9:19 O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken, and do: delay not, for thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy city, and upon thy people.

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
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, 21And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.22If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:22
If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:

Isaiah 43:25
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.

Micah 7:18
Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

2 Chronicles 6:20
Top of Page
Top of Page