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2 Chronicles 6:40 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 40. 40Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “The prayer closes with rest, priests, saints, and Davidic mercies.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 6:40–42
Read 2 Chronicles 6:40 with 6:40–42. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Solomon asks God to attend prayer, enter the resting place with the ark, clothe priests with salvation, give faithful people joy, and remember mercies to David.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 6:40 depends on 6:40–42; isolating “Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “The prayer closes with rest, priests, saints, and Davidic mercies.”
Read 2 Chronicles 6:40–42 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 6:40–42 forms the complete movement “The prayer closes with rest, priests, saints, and Davidic mercies”: Solomon asks God to attend prayer, enter the resting place with the ark, clothe priests with salvation, give faithful people joy, and remember mercies to David.
Verse 40. 40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
Verse 41. 41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
Verse 42. 42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 6:40–42 — The prayer closes with rest, priests, saints, and Davidic merciesSources 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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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 6:40–42, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 6:40–42
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