2 Chronicles 6:27
25 then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.
26 When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
28 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
29 then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
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- BSB
- then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
- KJV
- Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
- WEB
- then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
- ASV
- then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
- DARBY
- then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
- BLB
- then may You hear [in] the heavens and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, that You may direct them toward the good way that they should walk in it, and give rain on Your land that You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
- ÅB
- så vil du høre det i himmelen og tilgi dine tjeneres og ditt folk Israels synd, fordi du vil lede dem til den gode vei de skal vandre, og du vil la det regne over ditt land, som du har gitt ditt folk til arv.
- OTB
- da hør i himmelen og tilgi synden til Dine tjenere og Ditt folk Israel, lær dem den gode veien de skal vandre; og send regn på Ditt land som Du har gitt til Ditt folk som en arv.
- B1930
- så vil du høre det i himmelen og forlate dine tjeneres og ditt folk Israels synd, fordi du vil lede dem til den gode vei de skal vandre, og du vil la det regne over ditt land, som du har gitt ditt folk til arv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zechariah 10:1
Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:24
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Read in context1 Kings 8:35–36
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
Read in contextPsalms 94:12
Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
Read in contextJeremiah 6:16
This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
Read in contextPsalms 119:33
Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
Read in contextPsalms 25:4–5
Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
Read in contextJeremiah 42:3
Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”
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