2 Chronicles 20:9

Modern English Version

‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, then we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your name is in this temple. And we will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear and deliver.’

Cross References

1 Kings 8:30

Please listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.

1 Kings 8:33

“When Your people Israel are defeated by their enemies, because they have sinned against You, and they turn back to You and call upon Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house,

1 Kings 8:37

“When there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

2 Chronicles 20:8

And they have dwelt in it and have built in it for You a sanctuary for Your name saying,

2 Chronicles 6:20

that Your eyes might be open toward this house both day and night, to the place that You have said that You will set Your name, in order to hear the prayer of Your servant for this place.

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose any city from among the tribes of Israel to build a house for My name to dwell there, nor did I select a man to be the leader over My people Israel;

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large congregation of men, women, and children gathered around him from Israel, for the people too wept bitterly.

Psalm 50:15

Call on Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify Me.”

Psalm 91:3

Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.

Exodus 20:24

“You shall make an altar of earth for Me and on it you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen. In every place where I cause My name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.

Exodus 23:21

Be on guard before him and obey his voice. Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for My name is in him.

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are assembled in My name, there I am in their midst.”