2 Chronicles 6:22
Good News Translation
"When people are accused of wronging others and are brought to your altar in this Temple to take an oath that they are innocent,

New Revised Standard Version
“If someone sins against another and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house,

Contemporary English Version
Suppose someone accuses a person of a crime, and the accused has to stand in front of the altar in your temple and say, "I swear I am innocent!"

New American Bible
“If someone sins against a neighbor and is required to take an oath sanctioned by a curse, and comes and takes the oath before your altar in this house,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:

sin

1 Kings 8:31,32 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy altar, to thy house, . . .

and an oath, etc.

Exodus 22:11 There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth his hand to his neighbour's goods: and the owner shall accept of the oath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.

Leviticus 5:1 If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.

Proverbs 30:9 Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.

the oath

Numbers 5:19-22 And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee. . . .

Matthew 23:18 And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
21And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy. 22If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:23Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:21
And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.

2 Chronicles 6:23
Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.

2 Chronicles 6:21
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