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2 Chronicles 7:14-16
New English Translation

14 if my people, who belong to me,[a] humble themselves, pray, seek to please me,[b] and repudiate their sinful practices,[c] then I will respond[d] from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.[e] 15 Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.[f] 16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home;[g] I will be constantly present there.[h]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 7:14 tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.
  2. 2 Chronicles 7:14 tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.
  3. 2 Chronicles 7:14 tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 7:14 tn Heb “hear.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 7:14 sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.
  6. 2 Chronicles 7:15 tn Heb “my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.” Note Solomon’s request in 6:40.
  7. 2 Chronicles 7:16 tn Heb “for my name to be there perpetually [or perhaps, “forever”].”
  8. 2 Chronicles 7:16 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
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