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 6:22 - New Revised Standard Version “If someone sins against another and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 If someone wrongs another and must take a solemn pledge asserting his innocence before your altar in this temple, Catholic Public Domain Version 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, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house: |
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.
may you hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own head, and vindicating those who are in the right by rewarding them in accordance with their righteousness.
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.
or I shall be full, and deny you, and say, “Who is the Lord?” or I shall be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.
When any of you sin in that you have heard a public adjuration to testify and—though able to testify as one who has seen or learned of the matter—does not speak up, you are subject to punishment.
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.’