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Second Book of Chronicles, Chapter 6

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2 Chronicles 6 NASB - New American Standard Bible2 Chronicles 6 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 6 of 2 Chronicles—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. 1Then Solomon said,
    ¶ “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.
  2. “I have built You a lofty house,
    And a place for Your dwelling forever.”
  3. ¶ Then the king [a]faced about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.
  4. He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hands, saying,
  5. ‘Since the day that I brought My people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there, nor did I choose any man for a leader over My people Israel;
  6. but 2I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I 3have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
  7. 4Now it was [b]in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  8. But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Because it was [c]in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was [d]in your heart.
  9. Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who [e]will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.’
  10. Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in the place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD [f]promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  11. There I have set the ark 5in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with the sons of Israel.”
  12. ¶ Then he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
  13. 6Now 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, 7knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.
  14. He said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, 8there is no god like You in heaven or on earth, 9keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart;
  15. 10who has kept with Your servant David, my father, that which You have [g]promised him; indeed You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
  16. Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David, my father, that which You have [h]promised him, saying, ‘[i]11You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’
  17. Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, let Your word be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant David.
  18. ¶ “But 12will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, 13heaven and the [j]highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built.
  19. Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You;
  20. that Your 14eye may be open toward this house day and night, toward 15the place of which You have said that You would put Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.
  21. Listen to the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place; hear from Your dwelling place, from heaven; 16hear and forgive.
  22. ¶ “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,
  23. then hear from heaven and act and judge Your servants, [k]17punishing the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.
  24. ¶ “If Your people Israel [l]are defeated before an enemy because 18they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication before You in this house,
  25. then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You have given to them and to their fathers.
  26. ¶ “When the 19heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them;
  27. then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, indeed, 20teach 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.
  28. ¶ “If there is 21famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there is locust or grasshopper, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their [m]cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,
  29. whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, [n]each knowing his own affliction and his own pain, and spreading his hands toward this house,
  30. then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know 22for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men,
  31. that they may [o]fear You, to walk in Your ways [p]as long as they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.
  32. ¶ “Also concerning 23the foreigner who is not from Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your great name’s sake and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,
  33. then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, and [q]fear You as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that [r]this house which I have built is 24called by Your name.
  34. ¶ “When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,
  35. then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
  36. ¶ “When they sin against You (25for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that [s]they take them away captive to a land far off or near,
  37. if they [t]take thought in the land where they are taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have committed iniquity and have acted wickedly’;
  38. 26if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name,
  39. then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, their prayer and supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.
  40. ¶ “Now, O my God, I pray, 27let Your eyes be open and 28Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
  41. ¶ “29Now therefore arise, O LORD God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might; let Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation and let Your godly ones rejoice in what is good.
  42. ¶ “O LORD God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; 30remember Your lovingkindness to Your servant David.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit turned his face about
  2. ^ Lit with
  3. ^ Lit with
  4. ^ Lit with
  5. ^ Lit will come forth from your loins
  6. ^ Lit spoke
  7. ^ Lit spoken to
  8. ^ Lit spoken to
  9. ^ Lit There shall not be cut off to you a man from before Me
  10. ^ Lit heaven of heavens
  11. ^ Lit returning
  12. ^ Lit smitten
  13. ^ Lit gates
  14. ^ Lit whoever shall know
  15. ^ Or reverence
  16. ^ Lit all the days that they live on the face of the land
  17. ^ Or reverence
  18. ^ Lit Your name is called upon this house
  19. ^ Lit their captors take them captive
  20. ^ Lit return to their heart

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Ki 8:12-50
  2. ^ 2Ch 12:13
  3. ^ 1Ch 28:4
  4. ^ 1Ki 5:3; 1Ch 28:2
  5. ^ 2Ch 5:7, 10
  6. ^ Ne 8:4
  7. ^ 1Ki 8:54
  8. ^ Ex 15:11; De 3:24
  9. ^ De 7:9
  10. ^ 1Ch 22:9, 10
  11. ^ 1Ki 2:4; 2Ch 7:18
  12. ^ Ps 113:5, 6
  13. ^ 2Ch 2:6; Is 66:1; Ac 7:49
  14. ^ Ps 33:18; 34:15
  15. ^ De 12:11
  16. ^ Is 43:25; 44:22; Mc 7:18
  17. ^ Is 3:11; Ro 2:8, 9
  18. ^ Ps 51:4
  19. ^ 1Ki 17:1
  20. ^ Ps 94:12
  21. ^ 2Ch 20:9
  22. ^ 1Sa 16:7; 1Ch 28:9
  23. ^ Is 56:3-8
  24. ^ 2Ch 7:14
  25. ^ Jb 15:14-16; Jm 3:2; 1Jo 1:8-10
  26. ^ Je 29:12, 13
  27. ^ 2Ch 7:15; Ne 1:6, 11
  28. ^ Ps 17:1
  29. ^ Ps 132:8, 9
  30. ^ Ps 89:24, 28; 132:10-12; Is 55:3

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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