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2 Chronicles 6:27 Explained in Context
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Verse 27. 27Then 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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Quick Meaning
Asks forgiveness, instruction, and rain on inherited land.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 6:22–6:31
Asks forgiveness, instruction, and rain on inherited land. Read 2 Chronicles 6:27 within 6:22–6:31. The complete unit records: Solomon asks for just judgment in disputed oaths, restoration after defeat, rain after turning, and mercy when famine, siege, sickness, or each person's own grief leads to prayer.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The prayer moves from public institutions to varied crises and the inner knowledge only God possesses. In this exact position, the line beginning “Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of…” asks forgiveness, instruction, and rain on inherited land.
Follow the Context
- Solomon asks for just judgment in disputed oaths, restoration after defeat, rain after turning, and mercy when famine, siege, sickness, or each person's own grief leads to prayer.
- The prayer moves from public institutions to varied crises and the inner knowledge only God possesses.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of…”
In plain language: Asks forgiveness, instruction, and rain on inherited land.
The line beginning “Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of…” asks forgiveness, instruction, and rain on inherited land.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Calamity and illness do not prove a victim's personal sin, and prayer must not replace evidence, medicine, public health, or accountable relief.
What Remains True
Asks forgiveness, instruction, and rain on inherited land. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse asks forgiveness, instruction, and rain on inherited land, keep it inside 6:22–6:31, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 6:27 asks forgiveness, instruction, and rain on inherited land. Use 6:22–6:31, paraphrase “Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 6:22–6:31 — Prayer addresses oath, defeat, drought, disease, and private painSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 6:27 remains within this thought-unit limit: The prayer often links disaster and sin but does not explain every sufferer's guilt; later biblical voices and Chronicles' own exceptions prevent a mechanical formula.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 6:22–6:31, 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 6:22–6:31
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 6:22–6:31, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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