2 Chronicles 6:2

6:2 O Lord, ¹  I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

2 Chronicles 6:18

6:18 “God does not really live with humankind on the earth! ²  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

2 Chronicles 6:34

6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ³  and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 6:38

6:38 When they return to you with all their heart and being ⁵  in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 6:33

6:33 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ⁷  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ⁸  obey ⁹  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ¹⁰ 

[6:2]  ¹ tn The words “O Lord” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but they are supplied in the translation for clarification; Solomon addresses the Lord in prayer at this point.

[6:18]  ² tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live with mankind on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “God does not really live with mankind on the earth.”

[6:34]  ³ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[6:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”

[6:38]  ⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[6:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your honor”).

[6:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[6:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “name.” See the note on “reputation” in v. 32.

[6:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “fear.”

[6:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.