2 Chronicles 6:24

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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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
people	עַמְּךָ֧ 'a.me.Kha	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
worse	יִנָּגֵ֞ף yi.na.Gef	H5062	to push · verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
before	לִפְנֵ֥י lif.Nei	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct
enemy	אוֹיֵ֖ב 'o.Yev	H341	hating · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
sinned	יֶֽחֶטְאוּ ye.chet.'u-	H2398	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
return	וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ ve.Sha.vu	H7725	to turn back (hence · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
confess	וְהוֹד֣וּ ve.ho.Du	H3034	physically · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
name	שְׁמֶ֔ךָ she.Me.kha	H8034	an appellation · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
pray	וְהִתְפַּֽלְל֧וּ ve.hit.pa.Lu	H6419	to judge (officially or mentally) · conjunction + verb, hithpael sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
supplication	וְהִֽתְחַנְּנ֛וּ ve.hit.cha.ne.Nu	H2603	properly · conjunction + verb, hithpael sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
before	לְפָנֶ֖יךָ le.fa.Nei.kha	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
house	בַּבַּ֥יִת ba.Ba.yit	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Leviticus 26:17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee wh…
Leviticus 26:37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies…
Leviticus 26:40-42 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also…
Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and s…
Deuteronomy 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of…
Deuteronomy 30:1-6 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shal…
Joshua 7:8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:12–end

Solomon had, in the foregoing verses, signed and sealed, as it were, the deed of dedication, by which the temple was appropriated to the honour and service of God. Now here he prays the consecration-prayer, by which it was made a figure of Christ, the great Mediator, through whom we are to offer all our prayers, and to expect all God's favours, and to whom we are to have an eye in every thing where we have to do with God. We have opened the particulars of this prayer (1 Kings 8) and therefore shall now only glean up some few passages in it which may be the proper subjects of our meditation. I. Here are some doctrinal truths occasionally laid down. As, 1. That the God of Israel is a being of…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 6:22

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, &c.--In cases where the testimony of witnesses could not be obtained and there was no way of settling a difference or dispute between two people but by accepting the oath of the accused, the practice had gradually crept in and had acquired the force of consuetudinary law, for the party to be brought before the altar, where his oath was taken with all due solemnity, together with the imprecation of a curse to fall upon himself if his disavowal should be found untrue. There is an allusion to such a practice in this passage.

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 6:22

If a man sin against his neighbor - For the Seven cases put here by Solomon in his prayer, see the notes on 1 Kings 8:31-46 (note).

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 6:1

See Introduction to Chapter 5

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 6:12–end

Solomon's dedicatory prayer likewise corresponds exactly with the account of it given in 1 Kings 8:22-53 till near the end (Ch2 6:40-42), where it takes quite a different turn. Besides this, in the introduction (Ch2 6:13) Solomon's position during the prayer is more accurately described, it being there stated that Solomon had caused a high stage (כּיּור, a basin-like elevation) to be erected, which he ascended, and kneeling, spoke the prayer which follows. This fact is not stated in Kg1 8:22, and Then. and Berth. conjecture that it has been dropped out of our text only by mistake. Perhaps so, but it may have been passed over by the author of the books of Kings as a point of subordinate impor…

Dictionary and topics

Prayer — Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or…
Temple, Solomon’s — Before his death David had “with all his might” provided materials in great abundance for the building of the temple on the summit of Mount Moriah (1 Chr. 22:14; 29:4; 2 Chr. 3:1), on the east of the…
Chastisement · FROM GOD — FROM GOD
Prayer, Public · Exemplified: Solomon — Exemplified: Solomon
Temple, The First · Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon — Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Chronicles 6:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:12–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 6:22

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 6:22

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 6:1

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 6:12–end

Dictionary and topics

2 Chronicles 6:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:12–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 6:22

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 6:22

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 6:1

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 6:12–end

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 6:24-25

Rashi on 2 Chronicles 6:24