2 Chronicles 6:25
Good News Translation
listen to them in heaven. Forgive the sins of your people and bring them back to the land which you gave to them and to their ancestors.

New Revised Standard Version
may you hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their ancestors.

Contemporary English Version
listen from your home in heaven. Forgive them and bring them back to the land you gave their ancestors.

New American Bible
listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave them and their ancestors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and their fathers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and their fathers.

forgive the sin

Ezra 1:1-6 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying: . . .

Psalm 106:4-47 Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation. . . .

Jeremiah 33:6-13 Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth. . . .

which thou

Genesis 13:15 All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

Exodus 6:8 And brought you into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to possess: I am the Lord.

Joshua 21:43 And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn to give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
24If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for they will sin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance, and call upon thy name, and pray to thee in this place, 25Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and their fathers.26If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of the sin of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and confess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, where thou dost afflict them,…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:24
If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for they will sin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance, and call upon thy name, and pray to thee in this place,

2 Chronicles 6:26
If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of the sin of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and confess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, where thou dost afflict them,

2 Chronicles 6:24
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