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2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 7 · verse 14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.2 Chronicles 7:14 · King James Version
What 2 Chronicles 7:14 means
God says this to Solomon about Israel, not about any nation since. Notice who is addressed: my people, which are called by my name. Four things are asked of them, and turning from their own wicked ways is the one that costs. The healing follows repentance, not a slogan.
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2 Chronicles 7:14 in context
12And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
15Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
16For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Commentary
Cross references
- Lamentations 3:40-41
- James 4:9-10
- Isaiah 55:6-7
- Proverbs 28:13
- 2 Chronicles 6:37-39
- Deuteronomy 4:29-30
- Jeremiah 33:6
- 2 Chronicles 33:12-13
Key words (Strong's)
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- humblekânaʻproperly, to bend the kneeH3665 →
- wickedraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- nameshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
- praypâlalto judgeH6419 →
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That God accepted Solomon's prayer appeared by the fire from heaven. But a prayer may be accepted and yet not answered in the letter of it; and therefore God appeared to him in the night, as he did once before (Ch2 1:7), and after a day of sacrifice too, as then, and gave him a peculiar answer to his prayer.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-22