2 Chronicles 6:15-25

15 ¹who has kept with Your servant David, my father, that which You have 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 promised him, saying, '²You 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 ³will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, ⁴heaven 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 ⁵eye may be open toward this house day and night, toward ⁶the 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; ⁷hear 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, ⁸punishing 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 ⁹they 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.

2 Chronicles 6:15-25 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.

Cross References

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

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "spoken to"
• [b] Lit "spoken to"
• [c] Lit "There shall not be cut off to you a man from before Me"
• [d] Lit "heaven of heavens"
• [e] Lit "returning"
• [f] Lit "smitten"