2 Tawarikh 6:20

6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ² 

2 Tawarikh 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ³  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ⁴  and repudiate their sinful practices, ⁵  then I will respond ⁶  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ⁷ 

[6:20]  ¹ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[6:20]  ² tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[7:14]  ³ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ⁷ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.