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II Chronicles Chapter 6

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II Chronicles

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In chapter 6 the people of Israel are warned of the coming judgment because they have not obeyed God. The chapter describes the destruction of the cities of Tyre and Sidon and the fate of the wicked nations. It emphasizes that true worship and obedience are essential for national blessing.

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(1) Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
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Exodus 20:21Exodus 24:15Exodus 24:16Exodus 24:17Exodus 24:18Leviticus 16:2Deuteronomy 4:11I Kings 8:12I Kings 8:13I Kings 8:14I Kings 8:15I Kings 8:16

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Deuteronomy 4:11I Kings 8:12Job 10:22Joel 2:2Zephaniah 1:15Matthew 6:23

(2) But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
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II Chronicles 2:4II Chronicles 2:5II Chronicles 2:6II Samuel 7:13I Kings 8:13I Chronicles 17:12I Chronicles 22:10I Chronicles 22:11I Chronicles 28:6I Chronicles 28:20Psalms 132:5Psalms 132:13

(3) And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
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I Kings 8:14II Chronicles 29:29Numbers 6:23Numbers 6:24Numbers 6:25Numbers 6:26Numbers 6:27Joshua 22:6I Kings 8:55I Kings 8:56I Kings 8:57I Kings 8:58

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Matthew 9:22

(4) And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
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I Kings 8:15I Chronicles 29:10I Chronicles 29:20Psalms 41:13Psalms 68:4Psalms 68:32Psalms 68:33Psalms 68:34Psalms 68:35Psalms 72:18Psalms 72:19Luke 1:68

(5) Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
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II Samuel 7:6II Samuel 7:7I Kings 8:16Exodus 20:24Exodus 23:21Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 12:11Daniel 9:19I Samuel 10:24I Samuel 13:13I Samuel 13:14I Samuel 15:23

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I Kings 8:16II Samuel 6:21I Chronicles 28:4

(6) But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
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II Chronicles 12:13Psalms 48:1Psalms 78:68Psalms 78:69Psalms 78:70Psalms 132:13Isaiah 14:32I Samuel 16:1I Chronicles 28:4Psalms 89:19Psalms 89:20

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II Chronicles 13:3John 15:16I Corinthians 1:27

(7) Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
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II Samuel 7:2II Samuel 7:3I Kings 5:3I Kings 8:17I Chronicles 17:1I Chronicles 22:7I Chronicles 28:2I Chronicles 28:3I Chronicles 28:4

(8) But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
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I Kings 8:18I Kings 8:19I Kings 8:20I Kings 8:21Mark 14:8II Corinthians 8:12

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II Kings 4:26I Kings 8:18II Chronicles 2:3I Samuel 15:19Isaiah 57:9

(9) Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
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II Samuel 7:12II Samuel 7:13I Chronicles 17:4I Chronicles 17:11I Chronicles 17:12

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I Kings 8:19I Kings 5:5II Chronicles 2:6Ezra 4:3Psalms 127:1Malachi 1:4

(10) The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
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II Chronicles 1:1I Kings 2:12I Kings 3:6I Kings 3:7I Chronicles 29:15I Chronicles 29:23Ecclesiastes 1:4Ecclesiastes 2:18Ecclesiastes 2:19I Chronicles 17:11I Chronicles 28:5

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I Kings 8:20I Kings 9:5Revelation 4:6

(11) And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
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II Chronicles 5:7II Chronicles 5:10Exodus 40:20I Kings 8:9I Kings 8:21Hebrews 9:4

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Hebrews 9:4Joshua 3:6I Samuel 4:4I Kings 8:21Exodus 40:20Joshua 6:6

(12) And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
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I Kings 8:22I Kings 8:23I Kings 8:24I Kings 8:25I Kings 8:26I Kings 8:27I Kings 8:28I Kings 8:29I Kings 8:30I Kings 8:31I Kings 8:32I Kings 8:33

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II Samuel 16:19

(13) For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
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Nehemiah 8:4II Chronicles 4:9I Kings 6:36I Kings 7:12I Kings 8:54Ezra 9:5Psalms 95:6Daniel 6:10Luke 22:41Acts 20:36Acts 21:5

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Ezekiel 41:2Ezekiel 40:48Exodus 27:1I Kings 6:6II Chronicles 3:11Ezekiel 41:12

(14) And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
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Genesis 33:20Genesis 35:10Exodus 3:15I Kings 8:23I Kings 18:36I Chronicles 29:10I Chronicles 29:20Exodus 15:11Deuteronomy 4:39II Samuel 7:22Psalms 86:8Psalms 89:6

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I Kings 8:23II Kings 23:3Leviticus 26:42II Chronicles 34:31Nehemiah 9:32James 2:13

(15) Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
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II Samuel 7:12I Kings 8:24I Chronicles 22:9I Chronicles 22:10

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I Kings 8:24John 17:12

(16) Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
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Ezekiel 36:37John 15:14John 15:15II Chronicles 7:18II Samuel 7:12II Samuel 7:13II Samuel 7:14II Samuel 7:15II Samuel 7:16I Kings 2:4I Kings 6:12Psalms 132:12

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I Kings 8:25I Kings 2:4I Kings 9:5I Kings 3:6Zechariah 6:7I Kings 8:20

(17) Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
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II Chronicles 6:4II Chronicles 6:14Exodus 24:10Isaiah 41:17Isaiah 45:3II Samuel 7:25II Samuel 7:26II Samuel 7:27II Samuel 7:28II Samuel 7:29Jeremiah 11:5

(18) But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
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Exodus 29:45Exodus 29:46I Kings 8:27Psalms 68:18Psalms 113:5Psalms 113:6Isaiah 57:15Isaiah 66:1Acts 7:48Acts 7:49Acts 17:24II Chronicles 2:6

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I Kings 8:27II Chronicles 2:6Psalms 148:4

(19) Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
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I Kings 8:28Psalms 74:20Psalms 130:2Daniel 9:17Daniel 9:18Daniel 9:19Luke 18:1Luke 18:2Luke 18:3Luke 18:4Luke 18:5Luke 18:6

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I Kings 8:28Psalms 17:1Psalms 102:1II Chronicles 6:20Jeremiah 11:14Ephesians 6:18

(20) That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
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II Chronicles 16:9I Kings 8:29I Kings 8:30II Kings 19:16Nehemiah 1:6Psalms 34:15Psalms 121:5II Chronicles 6:6Deuteronomy 26:2Colossians 2:9Daniel 6:10

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I Kings 8:29I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4

(21) Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
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II Chronicles 6:39II Chronicles 30:27Job 22:12Job 22:13Job 22:14Psalms 123:1Ecclesiastes 5:2Isaiah 57:15Matthew 6:9Psalms 85:2Psalms 85:3Psalms 130:3

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I Kings 8:30I Kings 7:25I Kings 8:29II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17

(22) 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;
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I Kings 8:31I Kings 8:32Exodus 22:11Leviticus 5:1Proverbs 30:9Numbers 5:19Numbers 5:20Numbers 5:21Numbers 5:22Matthew 23:18

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I Kings 8:31Genesis 24:41Numbers 5:21Hebrews 7:21Leviticus 5:4Numbers 30:2

(23) Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
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Numbers 5:27II Kings 9:26Psalms 10:14Proverbs 1:31Isaiah 3:11Jeremiah 28:16Jeremiah 28:17Jeremiah 51:56Romans 2:9Deuteronomy 25:1Proverbs 17:15Isaiah 3:10

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I Kings 8:32Ezekiel 33:12Genesis 18:25Ezekiel 3:20Ezekiel 18:24Matthew 10:41

(24) And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
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Leviticus 26:17Leviticus 26:37Deuteronomy 28:25Deuteronomy 28:48Joshua 7:8I Kings 8:33I Kings 8:34Psalms 44:10Joshua 7:11Joshua 7:12Judges 2:11Judges 2:14

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Song of Solomon 6:13I Kings 8:33Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(25) Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
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Ezra 1:1Ezra 1:2Ezra 1:3Ezra 1:4Ezra 1:5Ezra 1:6Psalms 106:40Psalms 106:41Psalms 106:42Psalms 106:43Psalms 106:44Psalms 106:45

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Psalms 148:4

(26) When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
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Leviticus 26:19Deuteronomy 11:17Deuteronomy 28:23I Kings 17:1I Kings 17:2I Kings 17:3I Kings 17:4I Kings 17:5I Kings 17:6I Kings 17:7I Kings 17:8I Kings 17:9

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I Kings 8:35Joel 2:23I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17

(27) Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
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I Kings 8:35I Kings 8:36Psalms 25:4Psalms 25:5Psalms 25:8Psalms 25:12Psalms 94:12Psalms 119:33Micah 4:2John 6:45Isaiah 30:21Jeremiah 6:16

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I Kings 8:36Joel 2:23Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Deuteronomy 11:14

(28) If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
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II Chronicles 20:5II Chronicles 20:6II Chronicles 20:7II Chronicles 20:8II Chronicles 20:9II Chronicles 20:10II Chronicles 20:11II Chronicles 20:12II Chronicles 20:13Leviticus 26:16Leviticus 26:25Leviticus 26:26

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Philippians 4:8I Kings 8:37Leviticus 11:42Leviticus 11:32Deuteronomy 14:26Matthew 16:19

(29) Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
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Psalms 33:12Psalms 33:13Psalms 50:15Psalms 91:15Psalms 32:2Psalms 32:3Psalms 32:4Psalms 32:5Psalms 32:6Psalms 142:1Psalms 142:2Proverbs 14:10

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I Kings 8:38I Kings 8:54I Kings 8:28II Chronicles 6:19Ephesians 6:18

(30) Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
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Psalms 18:20Psalms 18:21Psalms 18:22Psalms 18:23Psalms 18:24Psalms 18:25Psalms 18:26Psalms 62:12Jeremiah 17:10Ezekiel 18:30Matthew 16:27I Kings 8:39

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I Kings 8:39Ecclesiastes 11:5John 21:17I Corinthians 7:16I Samuel 12:3Psalms 84:5

(31) That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
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Exodus 20:20I Samuel 12:24Job 28:28Psalms 128:1Psalms 130:4Acts 9:31

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Deuteronomy 5:33Deuteronomy 30:16Ezekiel 33:11Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20I Kings 3:14

(32) Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
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Exodus 12:48Exodus 12:49Ruth 1:16Ruth 2:11Ruth 2:12I Kings 8:41I Kings 8:42I Kings 8:43I Kings 10:1I Kings 10:2Isaiah 56:3Isaiah 56:4

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I Kings 8:41Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Psalms 106:8Psalms 143:11Deuteronomy 4:34

(33) Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
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I Samuel 17:46II Kings 19:19Psalms 22:27Psalms 46:10Psalms 67:2Psalms 138:4Psalms 138:5Isaiah 11:10Isaiah 49:6Isaiah 54:1Isaiah 54:2Isaiah 54:3

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Psalms 68:33Psalms 148:4I Kings 8:43

(34) If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
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II Chronicles 14:11II Chronicles 14:12II Chronicles 20:4Deuteronomy 20:1Deuteronomy 20:2Deuteronomy 20:3Deuteronomy 20:4Joshua 1:2Joshua 1:3Joshua 1:4Joshua 1:5I Kings 8:44

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I Kings 8:44II Chronicles 6:38I Kings 7:25I Kings 8:48II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10

(35) Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Daniel 9:17Daniel 9:18Daniel 9:19Isaiah 37:21Isaiah 37:22Isaiah 37:23Isaiah 37:24Isaiah 37:25Isaiah 37:26Isaiah 37:27Isaiah 37:28Isaiah 37:29

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II Chronicles 6:39Psalms 148:4I Kings 8:28I Kings 8:45I Kings 8:49II Chronicles 6:19

(36) If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
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I Kings 8:46I Kings 8:50Job 15:14Job 15:15Job 15:16Psalms 130:3Psalms 143:2Proverbs 20:9Ecclesiastes 7:20James 3:2I John 1:8I John 1:9

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I Kings 8:46II Kings 21:14Jeremiah 20:5Jeremiah 43:3Isaiah 46:4

(37) Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
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Leviticus 26:40Leviticus 26:41Leviticus 26:42Leviticus 26:43Leviticus 26:44Leviticus 26:45Deuteronomy 4:29Deuteronomy 4:30Deuteronomy 30:1Deuteronomy 30:2Deuteronomy 30:3Luke 15:17

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Jeremiah 29:14I Kings 8:47Jeremiah 13:19Jeremiah 40:1Jeremiah 41:10Amos 1:6

(38) If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
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Deuteronomy 30:2Deuteronomy 30:3Deuteronomy 30:4Deuteronomy 30:5Deuteronomy 30:6Jeremiah 29:12Jeremiah 29:13Jeremiah 29:14Hosea 14:1Hosea 14:2Hosea 14:3Hosea 14:4

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4Deuteronomy 28:54

(39) Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
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II Chronicles 6:35Zechariah 1:15Zechariah 1:16Psalms 25:18Micah 7:18Micah 7:19Micah 7:20

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II Chronicles 6:35Psalms 148:4I Kings 8:49II Chronicles 6:21Nehemiah 1:6

(40) Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
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Psalms 7:3Psalms 13:3Psalms 22:1Psalms 22:2Psalms 88:1II Chronicles 7:15II Chronicles 16:9I Kings 8:52Psalms 34:15Isaiah 37:17Daniel 9:16Daniel 9:17

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II Chronicles 7:15Nehemiah 1:11

(41) Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
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Psalms 132:8Psalms 132:9Psalms 132:10Psalms 132:16I Chronicles 28:2Isaiah 66:1Joshua 3:13Joshua 6:4Joshua 6:5Psalms 110:2Romans 1:16Isaiah 59:16

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Psalms 93:1Isaiah 61:10Psalms 21:1Psalms 132:8Isaiah 12:2Exodus 40:20

(42) O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
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I Kings 2:16I Kings 1:34Psalms 2:2Isaiah 61:1Psalms 132:1Isaiah 55:3Acts 13:34

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Leviticus 26:42Ezekiel 33:11

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