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14 and prayed:[a] “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty[b] to your servants who obey you with sincerity.[c] 15 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David;[d] this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.[e] 16 Now, O Lord God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel,[f] provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.’[g]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 6:14 tn Heb “said.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 6:14 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 6:14 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 6:15 tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 6:15 tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”
  6. 2 Chronicles 6:16 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
  7. 2 Chronicles 6:16 tn Heb “guard their way by walking in my law as you have walked before me.”