2 Chronicles 6:21

6:21 Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place. ¹  Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive. ² 

2 Chronicles 6:27

6:27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ³  you will then teach them the right way to live ⁴  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 6:30

6:30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ⁶  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. ⁷  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ⁹  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ¹⁰  and repudiate their sinful practices, ¹¹  then I will respond ¹²  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹³ 

[6:21]  ¹ tn Heb “listen to the requests of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

[6:21]  ² tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

[6:27]  ³ tn The present translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense (“Certainly”). Other translation have “indeed” (NASB), “when” (NRSV), “so” (NEB), or leave the word untranslated (NIV).

[6:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[6:27]  ⁵ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[6:30]  ⁵ tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.

[6:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 28-30a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[6:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[7:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ¹¹ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.