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2 Chronicles 6:13 Explained in Context
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Verse 13. 13For 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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Role in This Section
Adds the bronze platform, public kneeling, and heavenward posture.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 6:12–6:21
Adds the bronze platform, public kneeling, and heavenward posture. Read 2 Chronicles 6:13 within 6:12–6:21. The complete unit records: From a bronze platform Solomon praises unmatched covenant loyalty, affirms conditional Davidic succession, denies that the house can contain God, and asks for attentive hearing and forgiveness from heaven.
Why It Needs Context
Adds the bronze platform, public kneeling, and heavenward posture. Its responsible force depends on 6:12–6:21; isolated from “Solomon kneels and asks heaven to hear,” the supporting action, name, number, object, quotation, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 6:12–6:21 — Solomon kneels and asks heaven to hearSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 6:12–6:21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 6:12–6:21
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