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20 Let your eyes be open toward this house day and night, toward the place where you have promised to set your Name and to listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.

21 When you hear your servant’s pleas for mercy and those of your people Israel when they pray toward this place, then hear in your dwelling place in heaven—hear and forgive.

The Petitions[a]

22 If a man sins against his neighbor, and his neighbor places him under an oath, and the oath is presented before your altar in this house,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 6:22 The Hebrew verb forms in the section may be translated as prophecy (you will forgive) or as prayer (forgive). The context favors prayer.

20 May your eyes(A) be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name(B) there. May you hear(C) the prayer your servant prays toward this place. 21 Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.(D)

22 “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath(E) and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

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