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    2 Chronicles 6

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    A foreigner arrives from a distant land, prays toward the temple, and Solomon asks heaven to hear him—so the whole earth may know the name.

    A house for the Namevv. 1–11

    Solomon begins with a pleasing architectural paradox: the LORD is said to dwell in the thick cloud, yet Solomon has built an exalted house for Him to dwell in forever. He blesses Israel by recounting the choice of Jerusalem and David, then the curious succession by which David desired the house, but David’s son built it. The ark, containing the covenant, now has its place there.

    The bronze platform and the long prayervv. 12–42

    Then comes the platform: five cubits by five, three cubits high. Solomon stands on it, kneels on it, and spreads out his hands before the entire assembly—a remarkably measured bit of solemnity. His prayer asks heaven to hear from the temple and forgive: the neighbour under oath, defeated Israel, the rainless land, famine, plague, blight, mildew, locusts, siege, sickness, war, and captivity all find their place. The prayer also makes room for a foreigner from a distant land, whose prayer toward the temple may be heard so that all peoples will know the LORD’s name. Solomon ends by asking the LORD to arise with the ark and remember David.

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    1. 2 Chr 6:1Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

    2. 2 Chr 6:2But I have built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”

    3. 2 Chr 6:3And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all

    4. 2 Chr 6:4and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,

    5. 2 Chr 6:5‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.

    6. 2 Chr 6:6But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

    7. 2 Chr 6:7Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

    8. 2 Chr 6:8But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

    9. 2 Chr 6:9Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’

    10. 2 Chr 6:10Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

    11. 2 Chr 6:11And there I have placed the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.”

    12. 2 Chr 6:12Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

    13. 2 Chr 6:13Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

    14. 2 Chr 6:14and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

    15. 2 Chr 6:15You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.

    16. 2 Chr 6:16Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’

    17. 2 Chr 6:17And now, O LORD, God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant David.

    18. 2 Chr 6:18But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

    19. 2 Chr 6:19Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You.

    20. 2 Chr 6:20May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

    21. 2 Chr 6:21Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

    22. 2 Chr 6:22When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

    23. 2 Chr 6:23then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

    24. 2 Chr 6:24When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,

    25. 2 Chr 6:25then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.

    26. 2 Chr 6:26When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

    27. 2 Chr 6:27then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.

    28. 2 Chr 6:28When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

    29. 2 Chr 6:29then may whatever prayer or plea Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

    30. 2 Chr 6:30be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—

    31. 2 Chr 6:31so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

    32. 2 Chr 6:32And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

    33. 2 Chr 6:33then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.

    34. 2 Chr 6:34When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of this city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,

    35. 2 Chr 6:35then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

    36. 2 Chr 6:36When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,

    37. 2 Chr 6:37and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

    38. 2 Chr 6:38and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

    39. 2 Chr 6:39then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and pleas, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.

    40. 2 Chr 6:40Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

    41. 2 Chr 6:41Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.

    42. 2 Chr 6:42O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

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    • 61 Chronicles 28:4Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
    • 6Psalms 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
    • 14Exodus 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
    • 62 Chronicles 12:13Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
    • 14Deuteronomy 7:9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
    • 161 Kings 2:4and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
    • 32Isaiah 56:3–7Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
    • 402 Chronicles 7:15Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
    • 40Psalms 116:2Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
    • 1Psalms 18:8–11Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
    • 6Psalms 48:1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
    • 6Psalms 78:68–70But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
    • 131 Kings 8:54Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
    • 182 Chronicles 2:6But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?
    • 18Isaiah 66:1This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
    • 21Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

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