2 Chronicles 6:33

33 then may you yourself hear from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner asks of you, so that all peoples of earth will know of your name and fear you, as [do] your people Israel, and that they may know that your name {possesses} this house that I have built.

2 Chronicles 6:33 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 5:33

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 5:1).

2 Chronicles 6:33 In-Context

31 that they may fear you [and] walk in your ways all the days that they [are] alive upon the face of the land that you have given to our ancestors.

32 "And also, with respect to the foreigner, he who [is] not of your people Israel, but comes from a distant land, for the sake of your great name and your powerful hand and outstretched arm, when he comes and prays to this house,

33 then may you yourself hear from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner asks of you, so that all peoples of earth will know of your name and fear you, as [do] your people Israel, and that they may know that your name {possesses} this house that I have built.

34 "When your people go out to battle against their enemy according to the way that you have sent them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,

35 then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens and uphold their case.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "is called over"