2 Chronicles 6:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ And hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place; may you hear from heaven your dwelling place; hear and forgive.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ So listen to and heed the requests of Your servant and Your people Israel which they shall make facing this place. Hear from Your dwelling place, heaven; and when You hear, forgive.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And hearken thou to the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yea, hear thou from thy dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

Common English Bible

²¹ Listen to the request of your servant and your people Israel when they pray concerning this place. Listen from your heavenly dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ and so that you may heed the prayer which your servant is praying within it, and so that you may heed the prayers of your servant and of your people Israel. Whoever will pray in this place, listen from your habitation, that is, from heaven, and forgive.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it. Hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in this place hear thou from thy dwelling-place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.

2 Chronicles 6:21 Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:27

Then the priests and the Levites stood up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard; their prayer came to his holy dwelling in heaven.

2 Chronicles 6:22

“If someone sins against a neighbor and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house,

2 Chronicles 6:39

then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

Psalm 123:1

To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!

Ecclesiastes 5:2

Never be rash with your mouth nor let your heart be quick to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.

Isaiah 18:4

For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 43:25

I alone am the one who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Isaiah 44:22

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Daniel 9:19

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Matthew 6:12

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Matthew 6:9

“Pray, then, in this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be revered as holy.