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14 and prayed:[a] “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty[b] to your servants who obey you with sincerity.[c] 15 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David;[d] this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.[e] 16 Now, O Lord God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel,[f] provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.’[g]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 6:14 tn Heb “said.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 6:14 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 6:14 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 6:15 tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 6:15 tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”
  6. 2 Chronicles 6:16 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
  7. 2 Chronicles 6:16 tn Heb “guard their way by walking in my law as you have walked before me.”

14 He said:

Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you(A) in heaven or on earth—you who keep your covenant of love(B) with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way. 15 You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised(C) and with your hand you have fulfilled it—as it is today.

16 “Now, Lord, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail(D) to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law,(E) as you have done.’

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