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<span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>who has kept with Your servant David, my father, that which You have promised him; indeed You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Now therefore, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David, my father, that which You have promised him, saying, You shall not lack a man 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Now therefore, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, let Your word be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant David. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>But will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O L<font size="1">ORD</font> my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>that Your eye may be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which You have said that <i>You would</i> put Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Listen to the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place; hear from Your dwelling place, from heaven; hear and forgive. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes <i>and</i> takes an oath before Your altar in this house, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>then hear from heaven and act and judge Your servants, punishing the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>If Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return <i>to You</i> and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication before You in this house, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You have given to them and to their fathers. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, indeed, 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. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there is locust or grasshopper, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness <i>there is,</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own pain, and spreading his hands toward this house, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You have given to our fathers. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Also concerning the foreigner who is not from Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your great names sake and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, and fear You as <i>do</i> Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to a land far off or near, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>if they take thought in the land where they are taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have committed iniquity and have acted wickedly; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>if 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 have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, their prayer and supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive Your people who have sinned against You. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>Now, O my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer <i>offered</i> in this place. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>Now therefore arise, O L<font size="1">ORD</font> God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might; let Your priests, O L<font size="1">ORD</font> God, be clothed with salvation and let Your godly ones rejoice in what is good. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>O L<font size="1">ORD</font> God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember <i>Your</i> lovingkindness to Your servant David. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_chronicles/6.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />and he said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven, or on earth; who keepest covenant and lovingkindness with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their heart;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_chronicles/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven nor in earth: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_chronicles/6.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />and said, Jehovah, God of Israel! there is no God like thee, in the heavens or on the earth, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_chronicles/6.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />and he said, O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in the heaven, or in the earth; who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their heart:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_chronicles/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor on the earth; who keepest covenant, and showest mercy to thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_chronicles/6.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />and 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;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_chronicles/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and saith, 'O Jehovah God of Israel, there is not like Thee a god in the heavens and in the earth, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants who are walking before Thee with all their heart;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/december_the_eighth_judged_by.htm">December the Eighth Judged by Our Aspirations</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Thou didst well, it was in thine heart." --2 CHRONICLES vi. 1-15. And this was a purpose which the man was not permitted to realize. It was a temple built in the substance of dreams, but never established in wood and stone. And God took the shadowy structure and esteemed it as a perfected pile. The sacred intention was regarded as a finished work. The will to build a temple was regarded as a temple built. And hence I discern the preciousness of all hallowed purpose and desire, even though it <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/december_the_eighth_judged_by.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxiv_if_so_be.htm">"If So be that the Spirit of God Dwell in You. Now if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ, He is None of His. "</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Rom. viii. 9.--"If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?" 2 Chron. vi. 18. It was the wonder of one of the wisest of men, and indeed, considering his infinite highness above the height of heavens, his immense and incomprehensible greatness, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and then the baseness, emptiness, and worthlessness of man, it may be a wonder to the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxiv_if_so_be.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/with_christ_in_the_school_of_prayer/eleventh_lesson_believe_that_ye.htm">Eleventh Lesson. Believe that Ye have Received;'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Believe that ye have received;' Or, The Faith that Takes. Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them.'--Mark xi. 24 WHAT a promise! so large, so Divine, that our little hearts cannot take it in, and in every possible way seek to limit it to what we think safe or probable; instead of allowing it, in its quickening power and energy, just as He gave it, to enter in, and to enlarge our hearts to the measure of what <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/with_christ_in_the_school_of_prayer/eleventh_lesson_believe_that_ye.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">With Christ in the School of Prayer</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xl_sanctification.htm">Sanctification. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">VI. Objections answered. I will consider those passages of scripture which are by some supposed to contradict the doctrine we have been considering. 1 Kings viii. 46: "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near," etc. On this passage, I remark:-- 1. That this sentiment in nearly the same language, is repeated in 2 Chron. vi. 26, and in Eccl. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xl_sanctification.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Grandison Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Systematic Theology</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/solomons_temple_spiritualized.htm">Solomon's Temple Spiritualized</a><br></span><span class="snippet">or, Gospel Light Fetched out of the Temple at Jerusalem, to Let us More Easily into the Glory of New Testament Truths. 'Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Isreal;--shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out hereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof.'--Ezekiel 43:10, 11 London: Printed for, and sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans without Bishopgate, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/solomons_temple_spiritualized.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/entire_sanctification/entire_sanctification.htm">Entire Sanctification</a><br></span><span class="snippet">By Dr. Adam Clarke The word "sanctify" has two meanings. 1. It signifies to consecrate, to separate from earth and common use, and to devote or dedicate to God and his service. 2. It signifies to make holy or pure. Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us. He was incarnated, suffered, died, and rose again from the dead; ascended to heaven, and there <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/entire_sanctification/entire_sanctification.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Adam Clarke—</span><span class="citation2">Entire Sanctification</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_4_results_of_transgression.htm">Results of Transgression</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Prominent among the primary causes that led Solomon into extravagance and oppression was his failure to maintain and foster the spirit of self-sacrifice. When, at the foot of Sinai, Moses told the people of the divine command, "Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them," the response of the Israelites was accompanied by the appropriate gifts. "They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing," and brought offerings. Exodus 25:8; 35:21. For <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_4_results_of_transgression.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_2_the_temple_and.htm">The Temple and Its Dedication</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The long-cherished plan of David to erect a temple to the Lord, Solomon wisely carried out. For seven years Jerusalem was filled with busy workers engaged in leveling the chosen site, in building vast retaining walls, in laying broad foundations,--"great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones,"--in shaping the heavy timbers brought from the Lebanon forests, and in erecting the magnificent sanctuary. 1 Kings 5:17. Simultaneously with the preparation of wood and stone, to which task many thousands <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_2_the_temple_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm">Chronicles</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/6-14.htm">2 Chronicles 6:14 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/6-14.htm">2 Chronicles 6:14 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/6-14.htm">2 Chronicles 6:14 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/6-14.htm">2 Chronicles 6:14 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/6-14.htm">2 Chronicles 6:14 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/6-14.htm">2 Chronicles 6:14 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_chronicles/6-14.htm">2 Chronicles 6:14 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_chronicles/6-13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 6:13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 6:13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_chronicles/6-15.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 6:15"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 6:15" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_chronicles/6-14.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>