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2 Chronicles 6:20

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

so that your eyes watch over this temple day and night, towards the place where you said you would put your name; and so that you may hear the prayer your servant prays towards this place.

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When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upstairs room opened towards Jerusalem,  and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God,  just as he had done before.


For the entire fullness  of God’s nature dwells bodily  in Christ,


let your eyes be open and your ears be attentive  to hear your servant’s prayer that I now pray to you day and night  for your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins  we have committed against you. Both I and my father’s family have sinned.


For the eyes of the Lord roam throughout the earth  to show himself strong for those who are wholeheartedly devoted to him.  You have been foolish in this matter. Therefore, you will have wars from now on.’


But I have chosen Jerusalem so that my name will be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’


Listen closely, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see.  Hear the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.


take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have his name dwell.


then the Lord your God will choose the place to have his name dwell.  Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions,  and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.


Listen  to your servant’s prayer and his petition, Lord my God, so that you may hear the cry and the prayer that your servant prays before you,


My eyes will now be open and my ears attentive to prayer from this place.


‘If disaster comes on us #– #sword or judgement, pestilence or famine   #– #we will stand before this temple and before you, for your name is in this temple.  We will cry out to you because of our distress, and you will hear and deliver.’


‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city to build a temple in among any of the tribes of Israel, so that my name would be there, and I have not chosen a man to be ruler over my people Israel.


Now, my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.





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