2 Chronicles 6 (NET)

2 Chronicles 6:1¹Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 18:8-11Exod 20:21Lev 16:21 Kgs 8:12-50Deut 4:11Heb 12:18Nah 1:3Ps 97:2Exod 24:15-18

2 Chronicles 6:2²O Lord, I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 2:4-61 Chr 17:121 Chr 22:10-111 Chr 28:201 Chr 28:61 Kgs 8:132 Sam 7:13Heb 9:11-12John 4:21-23Ps 132:13-14

2 Chronicles 6:3³Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:141 Chr 16:21 Kgs 8:55-612 Chr 29:29Josh 22:6Luke 24:50-51Matt 13:2Neh 8:5-7Num 6:23-27

2 Chronicles 6:4⁴He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled what he promised my father David.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 24:35Ps 68:32-35Ps 72:18-191 Chr 17:121 Chr 29:101 Chr 29:201 Kgs 8:15Eph 1:3Luke 1:68-70Ps 138:1-2

2 Chronicles 6:5⁵He told David, ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:161 Sam 10:241 Sam 13:13-141 Sam 15:232 Sam 7:15-162 Sam 7:6-7Dan 9:19Deut 12:11Deut 12:5Exod 20:24

2 Chronicles 6:6⁶But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 28:4Ps 132:132 Chr 12:13Ps 48:1Ps 78:68-701 Sam 16:1Isa 14:32Ps 89:19-20

2 Chronicles 6:7⁷Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:11 Kgs 5:31 Chr 22:71 Chr 28:2-41 Kgs 8:172 Sam 7:2-3

2 Chronicles 6:8⁸The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:18-212 Cor 8:12Mark 14:8

2 Chronicles 6:9⁹But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:11-121 Chr 17:42 Sam 7:12-13

2 Chronicles 6:10¹⁰The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the Lord God of IsraelCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:111 Chr 28:51 Chr 29:151 Chr 29:231 Kgs 2:121 Kgs 3:6-72 Chr 1:1Eccl 1:4Eccl 2:18-19

2 Chronicles 6:11¹¹and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with the Israelites.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 5:102 Chr 5:71 Kgs 8:211 Kgs 8:9Exod 40:20Heb 9:4

2 Chronicles 6:12¹²He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 9:33Isa 50:10Job 11:13Ps 143:6Ps 63:41 Kgs 8:22-531 Tim 2:82 Kgs 11:142 Kgs 23:3Ps 141:2

2 Chronicles 6:13¹³Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was 7½ long, 7½ wide, and 4½ feet high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:54Neh 8:4Ezra 9:5Ps 95:61 Kgs 6:361 Kgs 7:122 Chr 4:9Acts 20:36Acts 21:5Dan 6:10

2 Chronicles 6:14¹⁴and prayed: “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty to your servants who obey you with sincerity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:11Deut 7:91 Thess 2:12Luke 1:54-55Neh 1:5Ps 89:28Ps 89:6Ps 89:81 Chr 29:201 Kgs 18:36

2 Chronicles 6:15¹⁵You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 22:9-101 Kgs 8:242 Sam 7:12

2 Chronicles 6:16¹⁶Now, O Lord God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:42 Chr 7:18John 15:14-15Ps 132:122 Sam 7:12-16Ps 119:1Ezek 36:37

2 Chronicles 6:17¹⁷Now, O Lord God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant David be realized.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 11:52 Chr 6:142 Chr 6:42 Sam 7:25-29Exod 24:10Isa 41:17Isa 45:3

2 Chronicles 6:18¹⁸“God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 2:6Isa 66:1Ps 139:7-102 Chr 32:152 Cor 12:2Acts 17:24Acts 7:48-49Ps 113:5-61 Kgs 8:27Exod 29:45-46

2 Chronicles 6:19¹⁹But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:28Dan 9:17-19John 17:20Luke 18:1-7Ps 130:2Ps 20:1-3Ps 4:1Ps 5:1-2Ps 74:20

2 Chronicles 6:20²⁰Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 34:152 Chr 6:6Dan 6:10Ps 121:5Deut 12:11Deut 26:2Neh 1:61 Kgs 8:29-302 Chr 16:92 Kgs 19:16

2 Chronicles 6:21²¹Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place. Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 7:18Dan 9:19Isa 43:252 Chr 30:272 Chr 6:39Ps 130:3-4Matt 6:12Matt 6:9Eccl 5:2Isa 44:22

2 Chronicles 6:22²²“When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 22:111 Kgs 8:31-32Lev 5:1Matt 23:18Num 5:19-22Prov 30:9

2 Chronicles 6:23²³listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 18:20Isa 3:10-11Jer 51:56Prov 17:15Rom 2:9-102 Kgs 9:26Deut 25:1Jer 28:16-17Num 5:27Prov 1:31

2 Chronicles 6:24²⁴“If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help before you in this temple,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 26:171 Kgs 8:33-342 Kgs 17:7-18Dan 9:3-19Deut 28:25Deut 28:48Deut 30:1-6Deut 4:29-31Ezra 9:5-15Isa 63:1-19

2 Chronicles 6:25²⁵then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 33:6-13Exod 6:8Ezra 1:1-6Gen 13:15Josh 21:43Ps 106:40-47

2 Chronicles 6:26²⁶“The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 11:17Deut 28:23Lev 26:191 Kgs 17:1-182 Chr 33:12-13Amos 4:4-9Ezek 14:13Ezek 18:27-32Hos 5:15-6:1Isa 5:6

2 Chronicles 6:27²⁷then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly you will then teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:35-36Jer 5:24Ps 94:12Zech 10:11 Kgs 18:40-45Ezek 34:26Hos 2:21-22Isa 30:21Jas 5:17-18Jer 14:22

2 Chronicles 6:28²⁸“The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:13Joel 2:25Rev 9:3-11Ruth 1:11 Kgs 8:37-402 Chr 12:2-52 Chr 20:5-132 Chr 32:12 Chr 32:242 Kgs 6:25-29

2 Chronicles 6:29²⁹When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 6:12-13Prov 14:10Ps 142:1-2Ps 32:2-6Ps 33:12-13Ps 50:15Ps 91:15Isa 1:15

2 Chronicles 6:30³⁰then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 28:91 Sam 16:7Rev 2:23Heb 4:13Matt 16:271 Chr 29:171 Kgs 8:39Ezek 18:30Jer 17:10John 2:25

2 Chronicles 6:31³¹Then they will honor you by obeying you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 12:24Acts 9:31Exod 20:20Job 28:28Ps 128:1Ps 130:4

2 Chronicles 6:32³²“Foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will come from a distant land because of your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 56:3-71 Kgs 8:41-43Matt 8:10-11Acts 10:1-4Eph 2:12-13John 12:20Zech 14:16-17Acts 2:10Acts 8:27-39Exod 12:48-49

2 Chronicles 6:33³³Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you as your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 7:141 Kgs 8:161 Sam 17:462 Kgs 19:19Isa 11:10Isa 49:6Isa 54:1-3Jer 10:7Num 6:27Ps 138:4-5

2 Chronicles 6:34³⁴“When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:6-131 Kgs 8:131 Kgs 8:44-451 Sam 15:181 Sam 15:32 Chr 14:9-122 Chr 18:312 Chr 20:42 Chr 32:20-212 Chr 6:6

2 Chronicles 6:35³⁵then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 9:17-19Isa 37:21-36Jer 5:28Ps 9:3-4

2 Chronicles 6:36³⁶“The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 1:8-10Eccl 7:20Jas 3:2Job 15:14-16Ps 130:3Ps 143:21 Kgs 8:461 Kgs 8:502 Kgs 15:212 Kgs 17:18

2 Chronicles 6:37³⁷When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray, we have done evil!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 9:5-11Isa 64:6-12Jer 31:18-20Luke 15:17-19Deut 30:1-3Deut 4:29-30Ezra 9:6-7Jer 3:12-14Job 33:27-28Lev 26:40-45

2 Chronicles 6:38³⁸When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:11-132 Chr 6:34Dan 6:10Dan 9:3-4Deut 30:2-6Hos 14:1-4Jer 29:12-14Joel 2:12-13

2 Chronicles 6:39³⁹then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help, vindicate them, and forgive your sinful people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 6:35Mic 7:18-20Ps 25:18Zech 1:15-16

2 Chronicles 6:40⁴⁰“Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 7:15Ps 116:2Neh 1:6Ps 17:1Neh 1:112 Chr 16:9Dan 9:16-19Isa 37:17Ps 13:3Ps 22:1-2

2 Chronicles 6:41⁴¹Now ascend, O Lord God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! May your priests, O Lord God, experience your deliverance. May your loyal followers rejoice in the prosperity you give.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 28:2Isa 61:10Eph 4:22-24Gal 3:27Isa 61:3Isa 61:6Isa 66:1Neh 9:25Phil 3:3Phil 4:4

2 Chronicles 6:42⁴²O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 55:3Ps 132:11 Kgs 1:341 Kgs 2:16Acts 13:34Isa 61:1Ps 132:10Ps 2:2Ps 89:24Ps 89:28