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2
Chronicles Chapter Six
New King James Version (NKJV)
INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 5 & 6
The
words with which chapter five begins are the same with 1 Kings 7:51 and
what is contained in that and chapter six is much the same with 1 Kings 8:1 on
which see the notes; the blessing of Solomon on the people of Israel, which is
there, is here omitted, and two verses are here added, much the same with Psalm 132:8.
2 Chronicles 6:1 Then
Solomon spoke: “The Lord
said He would dwell in the dark cloud.
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1Then said Solomon, `Jehovah
said -- to dwell in thick darkness,
See
Introduction to Chapter 5
2 Chronicles
6:2 2 I
have surely built You an exalted house, And a place for You to dwell in forever.”
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2and I -- I have built a
house of habitation for Thee, and a fixed place for Thy dwelling to the ages.'
2 Chronicles 6:3 3 Then the king turned
around and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of
Israel was standing.
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3And the king turneth round
his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel, and the whole assembly of
Israel is standing,
2 Chronicles 6:4 4 And he said: “Blessed be
the Lord
God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His hands what He spoke with His
mouth to my father David, saying,
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4and he saith, `Blessed [is]
Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath spoken with His mouth with David my father,
and with His hands hath fulfilled [it], saying:
2 Chronicles 6:5 5 ‘Since the day that I
brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any
tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be there,
nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.
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5`From the day that I
brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of
any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there, and I
have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel;
2 Chronicles 6:6 6 Yet I have chosen
Jerusalem, that My name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over My
people Israel.’
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6and I fix on Jerusalem for
My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:7 7 Now it was in the heart of
my father David to build a temple[a] for the
name of the Lord
God of Israel.
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7`And it is with the heart
of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel,
2 Chronicles 6:8 8 But the Lord said to my
father David, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you
did well in that it was in your heart.
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8and Jehovah saith unto
David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for
My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,
2 Chronicles 6:9 9 Nevertheless you shall not
build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the
temple for My name.’
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9but thou dost not build the
house, for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins, he doth build the house
for My name.
2 Chronicles 6:10 10 So the Lord has fulfilled
His word which He spoke, and I have filled the position of my father David, and
sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised; and I have
built the temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
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10`And Jehovah doth establish
His word that He spake, and I rise up in the stead of David my father, and sit
on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and I build the house for the name
of Jehovah, God of Israel,
2 Chronicles 6:11 11 And there I have put the
ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord which He made
with the children of Israel.”
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11and I place there the ark,
where [is] the covenant of Jehovah that He made with the sons of Israel.'
2 Chronicles 6:12 12 Then Solomon[b] stood
before the altar of the Lord
in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands
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12And he standeth before the
altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth out
his hand, --
2 Chronicles 6:13 13 (for Solomon had made a bronze
platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set
it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees
before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven);
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13for Solomon hath made a
scaffold of brass, and putteth it in the midst of the court, five cubits its
length, and five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height, and he
standeth upon it, and kneeleth on his knees over-against all the assembly of
Israel, and spreadeth forth his hands towards the heavens –
2 Chronicles 6:14 14 and he said: “Lord God of Israel,
there is no God in heaven or on earth like You, who keep Your
covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their
hearts.
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14and saith, `O Jehovah God
of Israel, there is not like Thee a god in the heavens and in the earth,
keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants who are walking before
Thee with all their heart;
2 Chronicles 6:15 15 You have kept what You
promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and
fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
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15who hast kept for Thy
servant David my father that which Thou didst speak to him; yea, Thou dost
speak with Thy mouth, and with Thy hand hast fulfilled [it], as at this day.
2 Chronicles 6:16 16 Therefore, Lord God of Israel,
now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, ‘You shall not
fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take
heed to their way, that they walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’
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16`And now, O Jehovah, God of
Israel, keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou didst speak to
him, saying, There is not cut off to thee a man from before Me, sitting on the
throne of Israel, only, if thy sons watch their way to walk in My law, as thou
hast walked before Me.
2 Chronicles 6:17 17 And now, O Lord God of Israel,
let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David.
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17`And now, O Jehovah, God of
Israel, is Thy word stedfast that Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, to David,
2 Chronicles 6:18 18 “But will God indeed dwell
with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain
You. How much less this temple[c] which I
have built!
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18(for is it true? -- God
dwelleth with man on the earth! Lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the
heavens, do not contain Thee, how much less this house that I have built?)
2 Chronicles 6:19 19 Yet regard the prayer of
Your servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, and listen to the
cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You:
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19`And Thou hast turned unto
the prayer of Thy servant, and unto his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to
hearken unto the cry and unto the prayer that Thy servant is praying before
Thee,
2 Chronicles 6:20 20 that Your eyes may be open
toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You
would put Your name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes
toward this place.
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20for Thine eyes being open
towards this house by day and by night, towards the place that Thou hast said
to put Thy name there, to hearken unto the prayer that Thy servant prayeth
towards this place.
2 Chronicles 6:21 21 And may You hear the
supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward
this place. Hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.
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21`And Thou hast hearkened
unto the supplications of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, that they pray
towards this place, and Thou dost hear from the place of Thy dwelling, from the
heavens, and hast hearkened, and forgiven.
2 Chronicles 6:22 22 “If anyone sins against
his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath
before Your altar in this temple,
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22`If a man doth sin against
his neighbour, and he hath lifted up on him an oath to cause him to swear, and
the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house –
2 Chronicles 6:23 23 then hear from heaven, and
act, and judge Your servants, bringing retribution on the wicked by bringing
his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according
to his righteousness.
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23then Thou dost hear from
the heavens, and hast done, and hast judged Thy servants, to give back to the
wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to
give to him according to his righteousness.
2 Chronicles 6:24 24 “Or if Your people Israel
are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and return
and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication before You in this
temple,
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24`And if Thy people Israel
is smitten before an enemy, because they sin against Thee, and they have turned
back and confessed Thy name, and prayed and made supplication before Thee in
this house –
2 Chronicles 6:25 25 then hear from heaven and
forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which
You gave to them and their fathers.
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25then Thou dost hear from
the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy people Israel, and caused them to
turn back unto the ground that Thou hast given to them, and to their fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:26 26 “When the heavens are shut
up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray
toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You
afflict them,
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26`In the heavens being
restrained, and there is no rain, because they sin against Thee, and they have
prayed towards this place, and confessed Thy name -- from their sin they turn
back because Thou dost afflict them –
2 Chronicles 6:27 27 then hear in
heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may
teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land
which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
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27then Thou dost hear in the
heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel,
because Thou directest them unto the good way in which they walk, and hast
given rain on Thy land that Thou hast given to Thy people for an inheritance.
2 Chronicles 6:28 28 “When there is famine in
the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their
enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever
sickness there is;
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28`Famine, when it is in the
land, pestilence, when it is, blasting, and mildew, locust, and caterpillar,
when they are, when its enemies have distressed it in the land -- its gates,
any plague and any sickness;
2 Chronicles 6:29 29 whatever prayer, whatever
supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each
one knows his own burden and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this
temple:
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29any prayer, any
supplication that is for any man, and for all Thy people Israel, when they know
each his own plague, and his own pain, and he hath spread out his hands towards
this house:
2 Chronicles 6:30 30 then hear from heaven Your
dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways,
whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men),
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30then Thou dost hear from
the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast
given to each according to all his ways (because Thou knowest his heart, for
Thou -- Thou only -- hast known the heart of the sons of men),
2 Chronicles 6:31 31 that they may fear You, to
walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our
fathers.
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31so that they fear Thee, to
walk in Thy ways, all the days that they are living on the face of the ground
that Thou hast given to our fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:32 32 “Moreover, concerning a
foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country
for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm,
when they come and pray in this temple;
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32`And also, unto the
stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and he hath come from a land afar off
for the sake of Thy great name, and Thy strong hand, and Thy stretched-out arm,
and they have come in and prayed towards this house:
2 Chronicles 6:33 33 then hear from heaven Your
dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You,
that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do
Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built
is called by Your name.
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33then Thou dost hear from
the heavens, from the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to
all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for: so that all the peoples of the
earth do know Thy name, so as to fear Thee, as Thy people Israel, and to know
that Thy name is called on this house that I have built.
2 Chronicles 6:34 34 “When Your people go out
to battle against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to
You toward this city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built
for Your name,
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34`When Thy people doth go
out to battle against its enemies in the way that Thou dost send them, and they
have prayed unto Thee the way of this city that Thou hast fixed on, and the
house that I have built for Thy name:
2 Chronicles 6:35 35 then hear from heaven
their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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35then Thou hast heard from
the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their
cause.
2 Chronicles 6:36 36 “When they sin against You
(for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them
and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or
near;
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36`When they sin against Thee
-- for there is not a man who sinneth not -- and Thou hast been angry with
them, and hast given them before an enemy, and taken them captive have their
captors, unto a land far off or near;
2 Chronicles 6:37 37 yet
when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and
repent, and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying,
‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have committed wickedness’;
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37and they have turned [it]
back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and
have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee in the land of their
captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have done
wickedly;
2 Chronicles 6:38 38 and when they
return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their
captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land
which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and toward the
temple which I have built for Your name:
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38yea, they have turned back
unto Thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their
captivity, whither they have taken them captive, and they have prayed the way
of their land that Thou hast given to their fathers, and of the city that Thou
hast chosen, and of the house that I have built for Thy name:
2 Chronicles 6:39 39 then hear from heaven Your
dwelling place their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause,
and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.
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39then Thou hast heard from
the heavens, from the settled place of Thy dwelling, their prayer and their
supplications, and hast maintained their cause, and forgiven Thy people who
have sinned against Thee.
2 Chronicles 6:40 40 Now, my God, I pray, let Your
eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made
in this place.
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40`Now, my God, let, I
beseech Thee, Thine eyes be open, and Thine ears attentive, to the prayer of
this place:
2 Chronicles
6:41 41 “Now
therefore, Arise, O Lord
God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength. Let Your priests,
O Lord
God, be clothed with salvation, And let Your saints rejoice in goodness.
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41and now, rise, O Jehovah
God, to Thy rest, Thou, and the ark of Thy strength; Thy priests, O Jehovah
God, are clothed with salvation, and Thy saints rejoice in the goodness,
2 Chronicles
6:42 42 “O
Lord God, do not
turn away the face of Your Anointed; Remember the mercies of Your servant
David.”[d]
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42O Jehovah God, turn not
back the face of Thine anointed, be mindful of the kind acts of David Thy
servant.'
──《John Gill’s
Exposition of the Bible》
New King James
Version (NKJV)