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2 Chronicles 6:18-28

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18 "But 1will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, 2heaven and the 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 3eye may be open toward this house day and night, toward 4the 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; 5hear 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, 6punishing 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 are defeated before an enemy because 7they 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 8heavens 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, 9teach 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 10famine 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 cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,
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2 Chronicles 6:18-28 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 21

This chapter respects the priests, the sons of Aaron, and forbids their mourning for the dead, unless in some cases, Le 21:1-6; or their marriage with an whore or a divorced woman, Le 21:7,8; and the daughters of any of them to commit fornication, which is made punishable with death, Le 21:9; and it contains particular laws for the high priest to observe, who was not to mourn for any, even for his parents, Le 21:10,11; nor to go out of the sanctuary, Le 21:12; nor to marry any woman but a virgin, Le 21:13-15; and it also directs, that none of the priests having any blemish in them should be employed in divine service, though they might eat of the holy things, Le 21:16-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

  • 1. Psalms 113:5, 6
  • 2. 2 Chronicles 2:6; Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:49
  • 3. Psalms 33:18; Psalms 34:15
  • 4. Deuteronomy 12:11
  • 5. Isaiah 43:25; Isaiah 44:22; Micah 7:18
  • 6. Isaiah 3:11; Romans 2:8, 9
  • 7. Psalms 51:4
  • 8. 1 Kings 17:1
  • 9. Psalms 94:12
  • 10. 2 Chronicles 20:9

Footnotes 4

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