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2
Chronicles Chapter Six
New King James Version (NKJV)
INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 5 & 6
The
words with which chapter five begins are the same with 1 Kings 7:51 and
what is contained in that and chapter six is much the same with 1 Kings 8:1 on
which see the notes; the blessing of Solomon on the people of Israel
which is
there
is here omitted
and two verses are here added
much the same with Psalm 132:8.
2 Chronicles 6:1 Then
Solomon spoke: “The Lord
said He would dwell in the dark cloud.
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1Then said Solomon
`Jehovah
said -- to dwell in thick darkness
See
Introduction to Chapter 5
2 Chronicles
6:2 2 I
have surely built You an exalted house
And a place for You to dwell in forever.”
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2and I -- I have built a
house of habitation for Thee
and a fixed place for Thy dwelling to the ages.'
2 Chronicles 6:3 3 Then the king turned
around and blessed the whole assembly of Israel
while all the assembly of
Israel was standing.
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3And the king turneth round
his face
and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel
and the whole assembly of
Israel is standing
2 Chronicles 6:4 4 And he said: “Blessed be
the Lord
God of Israel
who has fulfilled with His hands what He spoke with His
mouth to my father David
saying
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4and he saith
`Blessed [is]
Jehovah
God of Israel
who hath spoken with His mouth with David my father
and with His hands hath fulfilled [it]
saying:
2 Chronicles 6:5 5 ‘Since the day that I
brought My people out of the land of Egypt
I have chosen no city from any
tribe of Israel in which to build a house
that My name might be there
nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.
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5`From the day that I
brought out My people from the land of Egypt
I have not fixed on a city out of
any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there
and I
have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel;
2 Chronicles 6:6 6 Yet I have chosen
Jerusalem
that My name may be there
and I have chosen David to be over My
people Israel.’
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6and I fix on Jerusalem for
My name being there
and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:7 7 Now it was in the heart of
my father David to build a temple[a] for the
name of the Lord
God of Israel.
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7`And it is with the heart
of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel
2 Chronicles 6:8 8 But the Lord said to my
father David
‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name
you
did well in that it was in your heart.
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8and Jehovah saith unto
David my father
Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for
My name
thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart
2 Chronicles 6:9 9 Nevertheless you shall not
build the temple
but your son who will come from your body
he shall build the
temple for My name.’
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9but thou dost not build the
house
for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins
he doth build the house
for My name.
2 Chronicles 6:10 10 So the Lord has fulfilled
His word which He spoke
and I have filled the position of my father David
and
sit on the throne of Israel
as the Lord promised; and I have
built the temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
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10`And Jehovah doth establish
His word that He spake
and I rise up in the stead of David my father
and sit
on the throne of Israel
as Jehovah spake
and I build the house for the name
of Jehovah
God of Israel
2 Chronicles 6:11 11 And there I have put the
ark
in which is the covenant of the Lord which He made
with the children of Israel.”
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11and I place there the ark
where [is] the covenant of Jehovah that He made with the sons of Israel.'
2 Chronicles 6:12 12 Then Solomon[b] stood
before the altar of the Lord
in the presence of all the assembly of Israel
and spread out his hands
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12And he standeth before the
altar of Jehovah
over-against all the assembly of Israel
and spreadeth out
his hand
--
2 Chronicles 6:13 13 (for Solomon had made a bronze
platform five cubits long
five cubits wide
and three cubits high
and had set
it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it
knelt down on his knees
before all the assembly of Israel
and spread out his hands toward heaven);
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13for Solomon hath made a
scaffold of brass
and putteth it in the midst of the court
five cubits its
length
and five cubits its breadth
and three cubits its height
and he
standeth upon it
and kneeleth on his knees over-against all the assembly of
Israel
and spreadeth forth his hands towards the heavens –
2 Chronicles 6:14 14 and he said: “Lord God of Israel
there is no God in heaven or on earth like You
who keep Your
covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their
hearts.
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14and saith
`O Jehovah God
of Israel
there is not like Thee a god in the heavens and in the earth
keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants who are walking before
Thee with all their heart;
2 Chronicles 6:15 15 You have kept what You
promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and
fulfilled it with Your hand
as it is this day.
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15who hast kept for Thy
servant David my father that which Thou didst speak to him; yea
Thou dost
speak with Thy mouth
and with Thy hand hast fulfilled [it]
as at this day.
2 Chronicles 6:16 16 Therefore
Lord God of Israel
now keep what You promised Your servant David my father
saying
‘You shall not
fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel
only if your sons take
heed to their way
that they walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’
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16`And now
O Jehovah
God of
Israel
keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou didst speak to
him
saying
There is not cut off to thee a man from before Me
sitting on the
throne of Israel
only
if thy sons watch their way to walk in My law
as thou
hast walked before Me.
2 Chronicles 6:17 17 And now
O Lord God of Israel
let Your word come true
which You have spoken to Your servant David.
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17`And now
O Jehovah
God of
Israel
is Thy word stedfast that Thou hast spoken to Thy servant
to David
2 Chronicles 6:18 18 “But will God indeed dwell
with men on the earth? Behold
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain
You. How much less this temple[c] which I
have built!
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18(for is it true? -- God
dwelleth with man on the earth! Lo
the heavens
and the heavens of the
heavens
do not contain Thee
how much less this house that I have built?)
2 Chronicles 6:19 19 Yet regard the prayer of
Your servant and his supplication
O Lord my God
and listen to the
cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You:
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19`And Thou hast turned unto
the prayer of Thy servant
and unto his supplication
O Jehovah my God
to
hearken unto the cry and unto the prayer that Thy servant is praying before
Thee
2 Chronicles 6:20 20 that Your eyes may be open
toward this temple day and night
toward the place where You said You
would put Your name
that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes
toward this place.
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20for Thine eyes being open
towards this house by day and by night
towards the place that Thou hast said
to put Thy name there
to hearken unto the prayer that Thy servant prayeth
towards this place.
2 Chronicles 6:21 21 And may You hear the
supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel
when they pray toward
this place. Hear from heaven Your dwelling place
and when You hear
forgive.
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21`And Thou hast hearkened
unto the supplications of Thy servant
and of Thy people Israel
that they pray
towards this place
and Thou dost hear from the place of Thy dwelling
from the
heavens
and hast hearkened
and forgiven.
2 Chronicles 6:22 22 “If anyone sins against
his neighbor
and is forced to take an oath
and comes and takes an oath
before Your altar in this temple
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22`If a man doth sin against
his neighbour
and he hath lifted up on him an oath to cause him to swear
and
the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house –
2 Chronicles 6:23 23 then hear from heaven
and
act
and judge Your servants
bringing retribution on the wicked by bringing
his way on his own head
and justifying the righteous by giving him according
to his righteousness.
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23then Thou dost hear from
the heavens
and hast done
and hast judged Thy servants
to give back to the
wicked
to put his way on his head
and to declare righteous the righteous
to
give to him according to his righteousness.
2 Chronicles 6:24 24 “Or if Your people Israel
are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You
and return
and confess Your name
and pray and make supplication before You in this
temple
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24`And if Thy people Israel
is smitten before an enemy
because they sin against Thee
and they have turned
back and confessed Thy name
and prayed and made supplication before Thee in
this house –
2 Chronicles 6:25 25 then hear from heaven and
forgive the sin of Your people Israel
and bring them back to the land which
You gave to them and their fathers.
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25then Thou dost hear from
the heavens
and hast forgiven the sin of Thy people Israel
and caused them to
turn back unto the ground that Thou hast given to them
and to their fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:26 26 “When the heavens are shut
up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You
when they pray
toward this place and confess Your name
and turn from their sin because You
afflict them
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26`In the heavens being
restrained
and there is no rain
because they sin against Thee
and they have
prayed towards this place
and confessed Thy name -- from their sin they turn
back because Thou dost afflict them –
2 Chronicles 6:27 27 then hear in
heaven
and forgive the sin of Your servants
Your people Israel
that You may
teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land
which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
YLT
27then Thou dost hear in the
heavens
and hast forgiven the sin of Thy servants
and of Thy people Israel
because Thou directest them unto the good way in which they walk
and hast
given rain on Thy land that Thou hast given to Thy people for an inheritance.
2 Chronicles 6:28 28 “When there is famine in
the land
pestilence or blight or mildew
locusts or grasshoppers; when their
enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever
sickness there is;
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28`Famine
when it is in the
land
pestilence
when it is
blasting
and mildew
locust
and caterpillar
when they are
when its enemies have distressed it in the land -- its gates
any plague and any sickness;
2 Chronicles 6:29 29 whatever prayer
whatever
supplication is made by anyone
or by all Your people Israel
when each
one knows his own burden and his own grief
and spreads out his hands to this
temple:
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29any prayer
any
supplication that is for any man
and for all Thy people Israel
when they know
each his own plague
and his own pain
and he hath spread out his hands towards
this house:
2 Chronicles 6:30 30 then hear from heaven Your
dwelling place
and forgive
and give to everyone according to all his ways
whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men)
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30then Thou dost hear from
the heavens
the settled place of Thy dwelling
and hast forgiven
and hast
given to each according to all his ways (because Thou knowest his heart
for
Thou -- Thou only -- hast known the heart of the sons of men)
2 Chronicles 6:31 31 that they may fear You
to
walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our
fathers.
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31so that they fear Thee
to
walk in Thy ways
all the days that they are living on the face of the ground
that Thou hast given to our fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:32 32 “Moreover
concerning a
foreigner
who is not of Your people Israel
but has come from a far country
for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm
when they come and pray in this temple;
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32`And also
unto the
stranger who is not of Thy people Israel
and he hath come from a land afar off
for the sake of Thy great name
and Thy strong hand
and Thy stretched-out arm
and they have come in and prayed towards this house:
2 Chronicles 6:33 33 then hear from heaven Your
dwelling place
and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You
that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You
as do
Your people Israel
and that they may know that this temple which I have built
is called by Your name.
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33then Thou dost hear from
the heavens
from the settled place of Thy dwelling
and hast done according to
all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for: so that all the peoples of the
earth do know Thy name
so as to fear Thee
as Thy people Israel
and to know
that Thy name is called on this house that I have built.
2 Chronicles 6:34 34 “When Your people go out
to battle against their enemies
wherever You send them
and when they pray to
You toward this city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built
for Your name
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34`When Thy people doth go
out to battle against its enemies in the way that Thou dost send them
and they
have prayed unto Thee the way of this city that Thou hast fixed on
and the
house that I have built for Thy name:
2 Chronicles 6:35 35 then hear from heaven
their prayer and their supplication
and maintain their cause.
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35then Thou hast heard from
the heavens their prayer and their supplication
and hast maintained their
cause.
2 Chronicles 6:36 36 “When they sin against You
(for there is no one who does not sin)
and You become angry with them
and deliver them to the enemy
and they take them captive to a land far or
near;
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36`When they sin against Thee
-- for there is not a man who sinneth not -- and Thou hast been angry with
them
and hast given them before an enemy
and taken them captive have their
captors
unto a land far off or near;
2 Chronicles 6:37 37 yet
when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive
and
repent
and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity
saying
‘We have sinned
we have done wrong
and have committed wickedness’;
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37and they have turned [it]
back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive
and
have turned back
and made supplication unto Thee in the land of their
captivity
saying
We have sinned
we have done perversely
and have done
wickedly;
2 Chronicles 6:38 38 and when they
return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their
captivity
where they have been carried captive
and pray toward their land
which You gave to their fathers
the city which You have chosen
and toward the
temple which I have built for Your name:
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38yea
they have turned back
unto Thee with all their heart
and with all their soul
in the land of their
captivity
whither they have taken them captive
and they have prayed the way
of their land that Thou hast given to their fathers
and of the city that Thou
hast chosen
and of the house that I have built for Thy name:
2 Chronicles 6:39 39 then hear from heaven Your
dwelling place their prayer and their supplications
and maintain their cause
and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.
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39then Thou hast heard from
the heavens
from the settled place of Thy dwelling
their prayer and their
supplications
and hast maintained their cause
and forgiven Thy people who
have sinned against Thee.
2 Chronicles 6:40 40 Now
my God
I pray
let Your
eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made
in this place.
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40`Now
my God
let
I
beseech Thee
Thine eyes be open
and Thine ears attentive
to the prayer of
this place:
2 Chronicles
6:41 41 “Now
therefore
Arise
O Lord
God
to Your resting place
You and the ark of Your strength. Let Your priests
O Lord
God
be clothed with salvation
And let Your saints rejoice in goodness.
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41and now
rise
O Jehovah
God
to Thy rest
Thou
and the ark of Thy strength; Thy priests
O Jehovah
God
are clothed with salvation
and Thy saints rejoice in the goodness
2 Chronicles
6:42 42 “O
Lord God
do not
turn away the face of Your Anointed; Remember the mercies of Your servant
David.”[d]
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42O Jehovah God
turn not
back the face of Thine anointed
be mindful of the kind acts of David Thy
servant.'
──《John Gill’s
Exposition of the Bible》
New King James
Version (NKJV)