2 Chronicles 6:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² “If someone sins against a neighbor and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² If a man sins against his neighbor, and he is required to take an oath, and the oath comes before Your altar in this house,

American Standard Version (1901)

²² If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house;

Common English Bible

²² If someone wrongs another and must take a solemn pledge asserting his innocence before your altar in this temple,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² If anyone will have sinned against his neighbor, and he arrives to swear against him, and to bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house,

2 Chronicles 6:22 Cross References

Exodus 22:11

an oath before the Lord shall decide between the two of them that the one has not laid hands on the property of the other; the owner shall accept the oath, and no restitution shall be made.

Matthew 23:18

And you say, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing, but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound by the oath.’

Proverbs 30:9

lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

Leviticus 5:1

“When any of you sin in that you have heard a public adjuration to testify and, although able to testify as one who has seen or learned of the matter, do not speak up, you are subject to punishment.

2 Chronicles 6:21

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.

2 Chronicles 6:23

may you hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own heads and vindicating the righteous by rewarding them according to their righteousness.