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2 Chronicles 6:34 Explained in Context
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Verse 34. 34If 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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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Foreigner and exile may pray toward the house.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 6:32–39
Read 2 Chronicles 6:34 with 6:32–39. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Solomon asks God to hear a foreigner drawn by God's reputation, to sustain just warfare, and to forgive exiles who confess and turn toward land, city, and house.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 6:34 depends on 6:32–39; isolating “If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Foreigner and exile may pray toward the house.”
Read 2 Chronicles 6:32–39 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 6:32–39 forms the complete movement “Foreigner and exile may pray toward the house”: Solomon asks God to hear a foreigner drawn by God's reputation, to sustain just warfare, and to forgive exiles who confess and turn toward land, city, and house.
Verse 32. 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;
Verse 33. 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.
Verse 34. 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;
Verse 35. 35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Verse 36. 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;
Verse 37. 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;
Verse 38. 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:
Verse 39. 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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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 6:32–39, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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