2 Chronicles 6:24

Solomon prayed for when Israel is defeated by enemies because of sin, then turns back, confesses God's name, and prays. He addressed national repentance after military defeat.

Cross-references · 21

• Lev 26:17I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
• 1 Kgs 8:33–34“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;
• 2 Kgs 17:7–18It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
• Judg 2:11The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
• Jer 3:12–13Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
• Judg 2:14–15Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
• Deut 4:29–31But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
• Neh 9:1–37Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
• Deut 30:1–6It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
• Deut 28:48therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
• Deut 28:25Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
• Lev 26:40–42“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
• Lev 26:37They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
• Ezra 9:5–15At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
• Isa 63:1–19Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
• Neh 1:8–9“Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;
• Ps 44:10You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
• Dan 9:3–19I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
• Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
• Josh 7:8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
• Josh 7:11–12Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

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