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23 then listen from heaven, act, and judge your servants, recompensing the wicked by bringing back to him the consequences of his choices[a] and by justifying the righteous by recompensing him according to his righteousness.

24 “If your people Israel are defeated in a battle with[b] their enemy because they have sinned against you, when they return to you[c] and confess to you,[d] pray, and in this Temple they ask you to show grace to them, 25 then hear from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and return them to the soil[e] that you gave to them and to their ancestors.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 6:23 Lit. by bringing his way upon his head
  2. 2 Chronicles 6:24 Lit. defeated before
  3. 2 Chronicles 6:24 The Heb. lacks to you
  4. 2 Chronicles 6:24 Lit. confess your name
  5. 2 Chronicles 6:25 Or land