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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, 23 then hear from heaven and take action. Provide justice for your servants by repaying the guilty person and bringing his ways down on his own head, and by declaring the righteous person innocent and dealing with him according to his righteousness.

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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.