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2 Chronicles 6:20-22
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20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live.[a] May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.[b] 21 Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place.[c] Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive.[d]

22 “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,[e]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 6:20 tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you promised to place your name there.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 6:20 tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 6:21 tn Heb “listen to the requests of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 6:21 tn Heb “hear and forgive.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 6:22 tn Heb “and if the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.”
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