2 Chronicles 6:20-25

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  6:21 Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place. ³  Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive. ⁴ 

6:22 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, ⁵  6:23 listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ⁶ 

6:24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ⁷  because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ⁸  and pray for your help ⁹  before you in this temple, 6:25 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors. ¹⁰ 

[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.”

[6:21]  ³ tn Heb “listen to the requests of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

[6:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

[6:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “and if the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.”

[6:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by repaying the guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

[6:24]  ⁹ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[6:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[6:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[6:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 38).