then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
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then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
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Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
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then hear Thou from heaven, even from Thy dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause; and forgive Thy people who have sinned against Thee.
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 6:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 6:35 then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- Psalms 25:18 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
- Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
- Zechariah 1:15-16 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.” Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, maintain their right.
Or, maintain their right.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 39. their cause] Render with R.V. mg. their right…
39. their cause] Render with R.V. mg. their right (as in 2Ch_6:35).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (39) Their supplications.—Kings, sing.; and so some MSS., LXX.,…
(39) Their supplications.—Kings, sing.; and so some MSS., LXX., Syriac, and Arabic. The plural is found nowhere else, and is probably incorrect here.
And forgive thy people.—This is the first clause of 1Ki_8:50; and from this point to the end of Solomon’s Prayer, the two texts are wholly dissimilar.
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