whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house;
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whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house;
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Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
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what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all Thy people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own pain, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 6:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 6:12-13 He stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands (for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven)
- Psalms 32:2-6 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit. When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
- Psalms 33:12-13 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
- Psalms 50:15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Psalms 91:15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
- Psalms 142:1-2 I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy. I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
- Proverbs 14:10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
- Isaiah 1:15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Any. Hebrew adds, "man, or thy people." Septuagint, "and…
Any. Hebrew adds, "man, or thy people." Septuagint, "and (that is) to thy." See ver. 32. (Haydock) --- Both strangers and Israelites may there sue for mercy, and obtain it. (Calmet) --- From this chapter, as well as from many other passages, it is evident that places consecrated to God, are more acceptable to him than other places; (Worthington) and here the prayers of the faithful are sooner heard, as they testify their unity. (Du Hamel)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. his man sore and his own grief] R.V.…
29. his man sore and his own grief] R.V. his own plague and his own sorrow. Cp. last note.
in this house] R.V. toward this house.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (29) When.—Or if, as in LXX. Hebrew, ‘asher. (See…
(29) When.—Or if, as in LXX. Hebrew, ‘asher. (See Note on 2Ch_6:24.)
His own sore (plague) and his own grief.—Kings, “the plague of his own heart.” So Syriac and Arabic. The phrase of the chronicler looks like a gloss on this.
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In this house.—The margin is right.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain God and the individual soul.
Vers. 29-31.
God and the individual soul.
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Not only during the time of national calamity (ver. 28), though especially then, do families and individual men find themselves in sore need of Divine succour. There is never any considerable congregation which does not include at least a few hearts that come up in hope of comfort and relief from Heaven.
I THE BURDEN WHICH IS BORNE BY EACH HUMAN HEART. With our complex nature, and our many human relationships, we lie open to many ills and sorrows. These may be:
1. Bodily; pain or weakness, or threatened serious disease.
2. Temporal; some difficulty or danger connected with "our circumstances.
3. S ympathetic; some trouble of heart we are suffering by reason of our strong attachment to others who suffer and are in distress.
4. Spiritual; heart-ache, disappointment, compunction, doubt, anxious inquiry after God. "Every one knows his own sore and his own grief.
II THE APPEAL OF THE SOUL TO THE SUPREME. Trouble does lead men to the God of their life, to the Father of their spirit. "Men say, "God be pitiful," who ne"er said, "God be praised. We cannot supply our own need; we find our own "insufficiency for ourselves;" we must look beyond ourselves, and in what direction? Man often fails us.
1. We cannot speak to him, either because we cannot get his ear, orbecause we do not care to divulge our secret grief to any human heart whatsoever.
2. Or we have tried to secure human sympathy, and have failed; men aretoo much occupied with their own affairs and their own troubles to make much room in their hearts for ours.
3. Or we cannot discover the human hand that will help us; those that pitycannot serve us, cannot save us. We must have recourse to God. And we bring our grief, our sore, to him.
1. We are sure that he is accessible. He invites our approach; he says, "Callupon me in the time of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
2. We are sure of his attention. He is our Father, who pities us withparental kindness; (Psa_103:13) he is our Saviour, who has trodden the path of struggle and of sorrow before us, on whose tender sympathy we may confidently count. (Heb_2:18 Heb_4:15, 16 5:2)
3. We may depend on his power. He is able to save, to rescue, to restore,to renew.
III THE DIVINE RESPONSE.
1. It is a question of our spiritual integrity. God answers "according to all our ways; " that is, according to our integrity. We must have the spirit of obedience in us. We may not look for a response if we are "regarding iniquity in our heart;" but, on the other hand, if we are seriously bent on serving the Lord, if "our heart condemn us not," if it acquit us of all insincerity and double-mindedness, "then have we confidence toward God; and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments". (1Jn_3:21, 1Jn_3:22) We may not, we are not able to keep all his precepts in all particulars; but the spirit of filial obedience, the desire to do what is "pleasing in his sight," is dwelling within us and inspiring us, and we are, therefore, of those whose prayer he hears. He forgives our shortcoming ("hear and forgive"), and he "renders according to our ways.
2. It is a question of Divine knowledge. Who shall tell that this spirit of submission and obedience is within us? Only One can; it is he who "only knows the hearts of the children of men." He looks beneath our words and actions, and sees the motives and the purposes of our hearts.
3. It is a question of our character and the Divine intention. And God"s design is so to hear and heed our prayers, so to grant or to withhold the desires of our heart, that we shall "fear God and walk in his ways," shall be "partakers of his holiness. C.
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