2 Chronicles 6:39
Good News Translation
then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them and forgive all the sins of your people.

New Revised Standard Version
then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

New American Bible
listen from heaven, the place of your enthronement, to their prayer and petitions, and uphold their cause. Forgive your people who have sinned against you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling place, their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although they have sinned:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling place, their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although they have sinned:

cause.

2 Chronicles 6:35 Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and revenge them.

Zechariah 1:15,16 And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil. . . .

forgive

Psalm 25:18 See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. . . .

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
38And return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, to which they were led away, and adore thee towards the way of their own land which thou gavest their fathers, and of the city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name: 39Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling place, their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although they have sinned:40For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:38
And return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, to which they were led away, and adore thee towards the way of their own land which thou gavest their fathers, and of the city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name:

2 Chronicles 6:40
For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.

2 Chronicles 6:38
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