2Chronicles:6:12-42

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* And he stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of the whole congregation of Israel , and spread forth his hands . * For Solomon had made a platform of bronze , five cubits long , and five cubits broad , and three cubits high , and had set it in the midst of the court ; and upon it he stood , and he kneeled down on his knees before the whole congregation of Israel , and spread forth his hands toward the heavens , * 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 ; * who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him ; thou spokest with thy mouth , and hast fulfilled [it ] with thy hand as at this day . * And now , Jehovah , God of Israel , keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him saying , There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel , if only thy sons take heed to their way to walk in my law , as thou hast walked before me . * And now , Jehovah , God of Israel , let thy word be verified which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David . * But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth ? behold , the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house which I have built ! * Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant , and to his supplication , Jehovah , my God , to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee ; * that thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night , upon the place in which thou hast said thou wouldest put thy name : to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place . * And hearken unto the supplications of thy servant , and of thy people Israel , which they shall pray toward this place , and hear thou from thy dwelling-place , from the heavens , and when thou hearest , forgive . * If a man have sinned against his neighbour , and an oath be laid upon him to adjure him , and the oath come before thine altar in this house ; * then hear thou from the heavens , and do , and judge thy servants , requiting the wicked , to bring his way upon his own head ; and justifying the righteous , giving him according to his righteousness . * And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy , because they have sinned against thee , and shall turn again and confess thy name , and pray , and make supplication before thee in this house ; * then hear thou from the heavens , and forgive the sin of thy people Israel , and bring them again unto the land that thou gavest to them and to their fathers . * When the heavens are shut up , and there is no rain , because they have sinned against thee ; if they pray toward this place , and confess thy name , and turn from their sin , because thou hast afflicted them ; * then hear thou in the heavens , and forgive the sin of thy servants , and of thy people Israel , when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk ; and give rain upon thy land , which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance . * If there be famine in the land , if there be pestilence , if there be blight or mildew , locust or caterpillar ; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates ; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be : * what prayer , what supplication soever be made by any man , or by all thy people Israel , when they shall know every man his own plague , and his own grief , and shall spread forth his hands toward this house ; * then hear thou from the heavens , the settled place of thy dwelling , and forgive , and render unto every man according to all his ways , whose heart thou knowest (for thou , thou only , knowest the hearts of the children of men ), * that they may fear thee , to walk in thy ways , all the days that they live upon the land which thou gavest unto our fathers . * And as to the stranger also , who is not of thy people Israel , but cometh out of a far country for thy great name 's sake , and thy mighty hand and thy stretched-out arm ; when they shall come and pray toward this house , * then hear thou from the heavens , the settled place of thy dwelling , and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for ; in order that all peoples of the earth may know thy name , and may fear thee as do thy people Israel , and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name . * If thy people go out to battle against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them , and they pray unto thee toward this city that thou hast chosen , and the house that I have built unto thy name ; * then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication , and maintain their right . * If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not ), and thou be angry with them , and give them up to the enemy , and they have carried them away captives unto a land far off or near ; * and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive , and repent , and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity , saying , We have sinned , we have done iniquity and have dealt perversely ; * and if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity , whither they have carried them captives , and pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers , and the city that thou hast chosen , and the house that I have built unto thy name ; * then hear thou from the heavens , from the settled place of thy dwelling , their prayer and their supplications , and maintain their right , and forgive thy people their sin against thee . * Now , my God , I beseech thee , let thine eyes be open and let thine ears be attentive unto the prayer [that is made ] in this place . * And now , arise , Jehovah Elohim , into thy resting-place , thou and the ark of thy strength : let thy priests , Jehovah Elohim , be clothed with salvation , and let thy saints rejoice in [thy ] goodness . * Jehovah Elohim , turn not away the face of thine anointed : remember mercies to David thy servant .

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