2 Chronicles 6:20

6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ² 

2 Chronicles 20:9

20:9 ‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, ³  judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. ⁴  We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will ⁵  hear and deliver us.’

[6:20]  ¹ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[6:20]  ² tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[20:9]  ³ tn Heb “sword.”

[20:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “for your name is in this house.” The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name. In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

[20:9]  ⁵ tn Or “so that you may.”