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2 Chronicles 7:12-14

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7:12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered 1  your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made. 2  7:13 When 3  I close up the sky 4  so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, 5  or send a plague among my people, 7:14 if my people, who belong to me, 6  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, 7  and repudiate their sinful practices, 8  then I will respond 9  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 10 
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[7:12]  1 tn Heb “I have heard.”

[7:12]  2 tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the Lord designated the temple as the place for making sacrifices, and this has been clarified in the translation.

[7:13]  3 tn Or “if.”

[7:13]  4 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[7:13]  5 tn Heb “the land,” which stands here by metonymy for the vegetation growing in it.

[7:14]  6 tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

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

[7:14]  8 tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  9 tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  10 sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.



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