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2 Chronicles 6:20
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Day and night may your eyes be on this temple, the place about which you said your name will be there. Listen to me as I pray toward this place.
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2 Chronicles 6:20 Meaning and Commentary
2 Chronicles 5:20
(
See Gill on
2 Chronicles 5:1
).
Taken from
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
2 Chronicles 6:20 In-Context
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"Does God really live on earth with people? If heaven itself, the highest heaven, cannot hold you, then how can this temple that I have built?
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Nevertheless, my LORD God, please pay attention to my prayer for mercy. Listen to my cry for help as I pray to you.
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Day and night may your eyes be on this temple, the place about which you said your name will be there. Listen to me as I pray toward this place.
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Hear the plea for mercy that your people Israel and I pray toward this place. Hear us in heaven, the place where you live. Hear and forgive.
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"If anyone sins against another person and is required to take an oath and comes to take the oath in front of your altar in this temple,
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