2 Chronicles 7:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

My people

Isaiah 63:19

And pray

Acts 9:11

Seek my face

Isaiah 45:19

Lamentations 3:40

Turn from

Will i hear

2 Chronicles 6:27

Heal their land

Bible References

My people

We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.

And pray

And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;

Seek my face

I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.

Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

Turn from

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.

Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

Will i hear

Then give ear from heaven, so that the sin of your servants and the sin of your people Israel may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.

Heal their land

You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.

We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.