2 Chronicles 6

1Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.Cross-references: Ex 20:21 · Ex 24:15 · Lev 16:2 · Deut 4:11 · 1Ki 8:12 · Ps 18:8 · +3 more

2But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”Cross-references: 2Sam 7:13 · 1Ki 8:13 · 1Chr 17:12 · 1Chr 22:10 · 1Chr 28:6 · 1Chr 28:20 · +7 more

3The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.Cross-references: Num 6:23 · Josh 22:6 · 1Ki 8:14 · 1Ki 8:55 · 1Chr 16:2 · 2Chr 29:29 · +3 more

4He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,Cross-references: 1Ki 8:15 · 1Chr 17:12 · 1Chr 29:10 · 1Chr 29:20 · Ps 41:13 · Ps 68:4 · +6 more

5‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there, and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel;Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Ex 23:21 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:11 · 1Sam 10:24 · 1Sam 13:13 · +5 more

6but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’Cross-references: 1Sam 16:1 · 1Chr 28:4 · 2Chr 12:13 · Ps 48:1 · Ps 78:68 · Ps 89:19 · +2 more

7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:2 · 1Ki 5:3 · 1Ki 8:17 · 1Chr 17:1 · 1Chr 22:7 · 1Chr 28:2

8But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;Cross-references: 1Ki 8:18 · Mark 14:8 · 2Cor 8:12

9nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 1Chr 17:4 · 1Chr 17:11

10“Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 2:12 · 1Ki 3:6 · 1Chr 17:11 · 1Chr 28:5 · 1Chr 29:15 · 1Chr 29:23 · +3 more

11There I have set the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.”Cross-references: Ex 40:20 · 1Ki 8:9 · 1Ki 8:21 · 2Chr 5:7 · 2Chr 5:10 · Heb 9:4

12He stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his handsCross-references: Ex 9:33 · 1Ki 8:22 · 2Ki 11:14 · 2Ki 23:3 · Job 11:13 · Ps 28:2 · +7 more

13(for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven).Cross-references: 1Ki 6:36 · 1Ki 7:12 · 1Ki 8:54 · 2Chr 4:9 · Ezra 9:5 · Neh 8:4 · +5 more

14Then he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart;Cross-references: Gen 5:24 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 33:20 · Gen 35:10 · Ex 3:15 · Ex 15:11 · +24 more

15who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 1Ki 8:24 · 1Chr 22:9

16“Now therefore, Yahweh, 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 children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 1Ki 2:4 · 1Ki 6:12 · 2Chr 7:18 · Ps 26:3 · Ps 119:1 · +3 more

17Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.Cross-references: Ex 24:10 · 2Sam 7:25 · 2Chr 6:4 · 2Chr 6:14 · Isa 41:17 · Isa 45:3 · +1 more

18“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!Cross-references: Ex 29:45 · 1Ki 8:27 · 2Chr 2:6 · 2Chr 32:15 · Job 4:19 · Job 9:14 · +11 more

19Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;Cross-references: 1Ki 8:28 · Ps 4:1 · Ps 5:1 · Ps 20:1 · Ps 74:20 · Ps 130:2 · +3 more

20that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.Cross-references: Deut 12:11 · Deut 26:2 · 1Ki 8:29 · 2Ki 19:16 · 2Chr 6:6 · 2Chr 16:9 · +5 more

21Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.Cross-references: 2Chr 6:39 · 2Chr 30:27 · Job 22:12 · Ps 85:2 · Ps 123:1 · Ps 130:3 · +8 more

22“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house,Cross-references: Ex 22:11 · Lev 5:1 · Num 5:19 · 1Ki 8:31 · Prov 30:9 · Matt 23:18

23then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.Cross-references: Num 5:27 · Deut 25:1 · 2Ki 9:26 · Ps 10:14 · Prov 1:31 · Prov 17:15 · +5 more

24“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house,Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Lev 26:37 · Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:48 · +15 more

25then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.Cross-references: Gen 13:15 · Ex 6:8 · Josh 21:43 · Ezra 1:1 · Ps 106:40 · Jer 33:6

26“When the sky is 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,Cross-references: Lev 26:19 · Deut 11:17 · Deut 28:23 · 1Ki 17:1 · 2Chr 33:12 · Prov 28:13 · +11 more

27then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:35 · 1Ki 18:40 · Job 37:11 · Ps 25:4 · Ps 25:8 · Ps 25:12 · +15 more

28“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is—Cross-references: Ex 10:12 · Lev 26:16 · Lev 26:25 · Deut 28:21 · Ruth 1:1 · 1Ki 8:37 · +11 more

29whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house,Cross-references: 2Chr 6:12 · Ps 32:2 · Ps 33:12 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 91:15 · Ps 142:1 · +2 more

30then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men),Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · 1Ki 8:39 · 1Chr 28:9 · 1Chr 29:17 · Ps 11:4 · Ps 18:20 · +7 more

31that they may fear you, to walk in your ways as long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.Cross-references: Ex 20:20 · 1Sam 12:24 · Job 28:28 · Ps 128:1 · Ps 130:4 · Acts 9:31

32“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,Cross-references: Ex 3:19 · Ex 12:48 · Ex 13:14 · Ex 18:8 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 9:9 · +22 more

33then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.Cross-references: Num 6:27 · 1Sam 17:46 · 1Ki 8:16 · 2Ki 19:19 · 2Chr 7:14 · Ps 22:27 · +8 more

34“If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;Cross-references: Num 31:2 · Deut 20:1 · Josh 1:2 · Josh 8:1 · Judg 1:1 · 1Sam 15:3 · +11 more

35then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.Cross-references: Ps 9:3 · Isa 37:21 · Jer 5:28 · Dan 9:17

36“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;Cross-references: Lev 26:34 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 28:36 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 29:24 · 1Ki 8:46 · +14 more

37yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 30:1 · Ezra 9:6 · Neh 1:6 · Neh 9:26 · +7 more

38if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;Cross-references: Deut 30:2 · 2Chr 6:34 · 2Chr 33:11 · Jer 29:12 · Dan 6:10 · Dan 9:3 · +2 more

39then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.Cross-references: 2Chr 6:35 · Ps 25:18 · Mic 7:18 · Zech 1:15

40“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:52 · 2Chr 7:15 · 2Chr 16:9 · Neh 1:6 · Neh 1:11 · Ps 7:3 · +9 more

41“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.Cross-references: Josh 3:13 · Josh 6:4 · 1Chr 28:2 · Neh 9:25 · Ps 65:4 · Ps 65:11 · +18 more

42“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”Cross-references: 1Ki 1:34 · 1Ki 2:16 · Ps 2:2 · Ps 89:24 · Ps 89:28 · Ps 132:1 · +4 more