2 Chronicles 6:21

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?
  • Dan 9:19 : 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.”
  • Matt 6:9 : 9 So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored,
  • Matt 6:12 : 12 and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors.
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you.”
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
  • 2 Chr 6:39 : 39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help, vindicate them, and forgive your sinful people.
  • 2 Chr 30:27 : 27 The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The LORD responded favorably to them as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.
  • Job 22:12-14 : 12 “Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are! 13 But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness? 14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’
  • Ps 85:2-3 : 2 You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people; you forgave all their sin.(Selah) 3 You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger.
  • Ps 123:1 : 1 A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven.
  • Ps 130:3-4 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you? 4 But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.
  • Eccl 5:2 : 2 (5:1) Do not be rash with your mouth or hasty in your heart to bring up a matter before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth! Therefore, let your words be few.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 8:28-36
    9 verses
    95%

    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.

    31“When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false.

    32Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.

    33“The time will come when your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help in this temple,

    34then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

    35“The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

    36then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly you will then teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.

  • 2 Chr 6:37-40
    4 verses
    88%

    37When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting,‘We have sinned and gone astray, we have done evil!’

    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.

  • 2 Chr 6:22-27
    6 verses
    88%

    22“When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple,

    23listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.

    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.

    26“The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

    27then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly you will then teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.

  • 2 Chr 6:18-20
    3 verses
    83%

    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!

    19But 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.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 6:29-35
    7 verses
    83%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:48-50
    3 verses
    82%

    48When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner, and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,

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

    50Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them.

  • Neh 1:6
    79%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 7:15
    78%

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:52
    77%

    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 8:38-39
    2 verses
    77%

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

    39then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.(Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)

  • 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.

  • 2 Chr 20:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

    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.’

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    73%

    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.

  • Dan 9:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19O 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.”

    20Gabriel Gives to Daniel a Prophecy of Seventy Weeks While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain–

  • Dan 9:17
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 30:27
    71%

    27The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The LORD responded favorably to them as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.

  • Ps 86:6
    71%

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

  • 2 Sam 7:27
    71%

    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.