Thematic Bible
2 Chronicles 6:1 (show verse)
And Solomon said, Jehovah has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.
2 Chronicles 6:2 (show verse)
And I have built a house for You to live in, and a place for Your dwelling forever.
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2 Chronicles 6:3 (show verse)
And the king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Israel. And all the congregation of Israel stood.
2 Chronicles 6:4 (show verse)
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who has with His hands fulfilled that which He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
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2 Chronicles 6:5 (show verse)
From the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt I have not chosen any city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, so that My name might be there. Nor have I chosen any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:6 (show verse)
But now I have chosen Jerusalem, so that My name might be there, and now I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:7 (show verse)
And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:8 (show verse)
But Jehovah said to David my father, Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well in that it was in your heart.
2 Chronicles 6:9 (show verse)
But you shall not build the house; but your son, who shall come forth out of your loins, shall build the house for My name.
2 Chronicles 6:10 (show verse)
And Jehovah has lifted up His Word that He has spoken. For I have risen up in place of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and I have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:11 (show verse)
And I have put the ark in it, in which is the covenant of Jehovah which He made with the sons of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:12 (show verse)
And he stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands.
2 Chronicles 6:13 (show verse)
For Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long and five cubits broad and three cubits high. And he had set it in the midst of the court. And he stood on it, and kneeled down on his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward Heaven.
2 Chronicles 6:14 (show verse)
And he said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in Heaven or in earth. You keep Your covenant and show mercy to Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
2 Chronicles 6:15 (show verse)
You have kept with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him. And You spoke with Your mouth, and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
2 Chronicles 6:16 (show verse)
And now, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in My sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk in My Law, as you have walked before Me.
2 Chronicles 6:17 (show verse)
And now, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, let Your Word be proven true, which You have spoken to Your servant David.
2 Chronicles 6:18 (show verse)
But truly will God in deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, Heavens and heaven of the heavens cannot contain You! How much less this house which I have built?
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2 Chronicles 6:19 (show verse)
And You have turned toward the prayer of Your servant, and to his cry, O Jehovah my God, to listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant prays before You.
2 Chronicles 6:20 (show verse)
I pray that Your eyes may be open on this house day and night, on the place of which You have said that You would put Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.
2 Chronicles 6:21 (show verse)
And You will listen to the cries of Your servant, and of Your people Israel, which they shall pray toward this place, and You will hear from Your dwelling place, from Heaven, and shall hear and forgive.
2 Chronicles 6:22 (show verse)
If a man sins against his neighbor, and if an oath is laid on him to make him swear, and if the oath comes before Your altar in this house,
2 Chronicles 6:23 (show verse)
then hear from Heaven, and do, and judge Your servants by repaying the wicked, by bringing his way back on his own head, and by justifying the righteous, by giving to him according to his righteousness.
2 Chronicles 6:24 (show verse)
And if Your people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy because they have sinned against You, and if they shall return and confess Your name, and shall pray and cry before You in this house,
2 Chronicles 6:25 (show verse)
then hear from Heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them again into the land which You give to them and to their fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:26 (show verse)
When the heavens shall be shut up, and there is no rain because they have sinned against You; if they pray toward this place, and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them,
2 Chronicles 6:27 (show verse)
then hear from Heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, when You have taught them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.
2 Chronicles 6:28 (show verse)
If there is famine in the land, if there is a plague, if blasting or mildew, locusts or ravagers, if their enemies have distressed them in the gates of their land, with any plague and any sickness;
2 Chronicles 6:29 (show verse)
whatever prayer, whatever cry shall be made by any man, or by all Your people Israel, when everyone shall know his own plague and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house;
2 Chronicles 6:30 (show verse)
then hear from Heaven, Your dwelling-place, and forgive, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart You know. For You only know the hearts of the sons of men.
2 Chronicles 6:31 (show verse)
Do this so that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways, as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:32 (show verse)
And also to the stranger who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your great name's sake, and Your mighty hand, and Your stretched out arm, if they come and pray in this house;
2 Chronicles 6:33 (show verse)
then hear from Heaven, from Your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calls to You for, so that all people of the earth may know Your name, and fear You, as Your people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name.
2 Chronicles 6:34 (show verse)
If Your people go out to war against their enemies by the way that You shall send them, and if they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name,
2 Chronicles 6:35 (show verse)
then hear from Heaven their prayer and their cry and maintain their cause.
2 Chronicles 6:36 (show verse)
If they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin), and if You are angry with them and deliver them up before their enemies, and they carry them away captives to a land far off or near,
2 Chronicles 6:37 (show verse)
yet if they think within themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to You in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong and have dealt wickedly;
2 Chronicles 6:38 (show verse)
if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity where they have carried them captives, and if they pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers and toward the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name;
2 Chronicles 6:39 (show verse)
then hear from Heaven, from Your dwelling-place, their prayer and their cries, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.
2 Chronicles 6:40 (show verse)
Now, my God, I beseech You, let Your eyes be open and Your ears hear the prayer made in this place.
2 Chronicles 6:41 (show verse)
And now arise, O Jehovah God, into Your resting-place, You, and the ark of Your strength. Let Your priests, O Jehovah God, be clothed with salvation, and let Your saints rejoice in goodness.
2 Chronicles 6:42 (show verse)
O Jehovah God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed. Remember the good deeds of David Your servant.
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