◄ 2 Chronicles 6:29 ►
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Good News Translation
listen to their prayers. If any of your people Israel, out of heartfelt sorrow, stretch out their hands in prayer toward this Temple,

New Revised Standard Version
whatever prayer, whatever plea from any individual or from all your people Israel, all knowing their own suffering and their own sorrows so that they stretch out their hands toward this house;

Contemporary English Version
Please listen when anyone in Israel truly feels sorry and sincerely prays with arms lifted toward your temple.

New American Bible
whatever prayer of petition any may make, any of your people Israel, who know affliction and pain and stretch out their hands toward this house,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,

what prayer

Psalm 33:12,13 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance. . . .

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 91:15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

know

Psalm 32:2-6 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile. . . .

Psalm 142:1,2 Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. . . .

Proverbs 14:10 The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle.

spread forth

2 Chronicles 6:12,13 And he stood before the altar of the Lord, in presence of all the multitude of Israel, and stretched forth his hands. . . .

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

in.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
…28If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the country, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall be upon them: 29Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,30Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him to have in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:28
If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the country, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall be upon them:

2 Chronicles 6:30
Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him to have in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:

2 Chronicles 6:28
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