2 Chronicles 6:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:28 : 28 But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today.
  • Ps 4:1 : 1 For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of David. When I call out, answer me, O God who vindicates me! Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place. Have mercy on me and respond to my prayer!
  • Ps 5:1-2 : 1 For the music director, to be accompanied by wind instruments; a psalm of David. Listen to what I say, LORD! Carefully consider my complaint! 2 Pay attention to my cry for help, my king and my God, for I am praying to you!
  • Ps 20:1-3 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. May the LORD answer you when you are in trouble; may the God of Jacob make you secure! 2 May he send you help from his temple; from Zion may he give you support! 3 May he take notice of all your offerings; may he accept your burnt sacrifice!(Selah)
  • Ps 74:20 : 20 Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.
  • Ps 130:2 : 2 O Lord, listen to me! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!
  • Dan 9:17-19 : 17 “So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake. 18 Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”
  • Luke 18:1-7 : 1 Prayer and the Parable of the Persistent Widow Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart. 2 He said,“In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. 3 There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying,‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself,‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people, 5 yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’” 6 And the Lord said,“Listen to what the unrighteous judge says! 7 Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?
  • John 17:20 : 20 Jesus Prays for Believers Everywhere“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 8:26-30
    5 verses
    92%

    26Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant, my father David, be realized.

    27“God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

    28But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today.

    29Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

    30Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably.

  • 2 Chr 6:20-21
    2 verses
    89%

    20Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

    21Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place. Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive.

  • 2 Chr 6:38-40
    3 verses
    85%

    38When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,

    39then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help, vindicate them, and forgive your sinful people.

    40“Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

  • Neh 1:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5Then I said,“Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant with those who love him and obey his commandments,

    6may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed against you– both I myself and my family have sinned.

  • 1 Chr 17:25-26
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    80%

    25for you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a dynasty for him. That is why your servant has had the courage to pray to you.

    26Now, O LORD, you are the true God; you have made this good promise to your servant.

  • 2 Chr 6:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17Now, O LORD God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant David be realized.

    18“God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

  • 2 Chr 6:29-35
    7 verses
    78%

    29When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

    30then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives.(Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)

    31Then they will honor you by obeying you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

    32“Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

    33Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

    34“When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

    35then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

  • 2 Sam 7:26-27
    2 verses
    78%

    26so you may gain lasting fame, as people say,‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is God over Israel!’ The dynasty of your servant David will be established before you,

    27for you, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, have told your servant,‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ That is why your servant has had the courage to pray this prayer to you.

  • 1 Kgs 8:52
    78%

    52“May you be attentive to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.

  • 1 Kgs 8:49
    77%

    49then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

  • Dan 9:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17“So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.

    18Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.

  • Ps 86:6
    77%

    6O LORD, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    77%

    3The LORD said to him,“I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

  • 1 Kgs 8:59
    77%

    59May the LORD our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, so that he might vindicate his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.

  • 2 Chr 7:15
    77%

    15Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

  • 1 Kgs 8:42-45
    4 verses
    77%

    42When they hear about your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds, they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

    43Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

    44“When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to the LORD toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

    45then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

  • Ps 6:9
    76%

    9The LORD has heard my appeal for mercy; the LORD has accepted my prayer.

  • 2 Chr 6:24-25
    2 verses
    76%

    24“If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help before you in this temple,

    25then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 6:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14and prayed:“O LORD God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty to your servants who obey you with sincerity.

    15You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

  • 1 Chr 17:19
    75%

    19O LORD, for the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing in order to reveal your greatness.

  • 1 Kgs 8:38
    75%

    38When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

  • Neh 1:11
    74%

    11Please, Lord, listen attentively to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me in the presence of this man.” Now I was cupbearer for the king.

  • 2 Chr 20:9
    74%

    9‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will hear and deliver us.’

  • Ps 17:6
    74%

    6I call to you for you will answer me, O God. Listen to me! Hear what I say!

  • 1 Sam 26:19
    73%

    19So let my lord the king now listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD has incited you against me, may he take delight in an offering. But if men have instigated this, may they be cursed before the LORD! For they have driven me away this day from being united with the LORD’s inheritance, saying,‘Go on, serve other gods!’

  • 2 Sam 7:19
    73%

    19And you didn’t stop there, O LORD God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Sovereign LORD?

  • Ps 66:19
    73%

    19However, God heard; he listened to my prayer.