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2 Chronicles 6:27

then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel; indeed, teach them the good way in which they are to walk. And provide rain on Your land, which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
2 Chronicles 6:27 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
  • KJV Then 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.
  • BSB then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
  • NKJV then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
  • NLT then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.

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Quick answer

Solomon asked God to forgive, teach them the good way, and send rain on the land. He sought both pardon and renewed instruction and provision.

Overview

Solomon prayed that God would forgive the repentant, instruct them in righteous living, and restore the rain. He recognized that true restoration includes God teaching his people to walk rightly. This longing for God to teach and provide anticipates the new covenant promise of God writing his law on hearts, fulfilled through Christ and the Spirit.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Jer 5:24Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
  • Zech 10:1Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
  • Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
  • 1 Kgs 8:35–36“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
  • Joel 2:23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
  • Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
  • Isa 30:21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
  • Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
  • Jer 42:3that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.”
  • Job 37:11–14Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
  • Ps 119:33Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
  • Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
  • Ps 25:12What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
  • 1 Kgs 18:40–45Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
  • Ps 25:4–5Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
  • Ps 68:9You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
  • Jas 5:17–18Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
  • John 6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
  • Hos 2:21–22It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
  • Ps 25:8Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
  • Mic 4:2Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

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Christ at the center

Temple, priesthood, and the repeated need for a faithful king who seeks the LORD all point past every imperfect reign to the King and Temple who finally and fully dwell with God's people.

How 2 Chronicles 6:27 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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