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2 Chronicles 6:28-30
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 6:28-30
New English Translation
28 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust[a] invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,[b] or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs. 29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,[c] as they acknowledge their intense pain[d] and spread out their hands toward this temple, 30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,[e] and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives.[f] (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)[g]
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- 2 Chronicles 6:28 tn Actually two Hebrew words appear here, both of which are usually (but not always) taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view, but this is uncertain. NEB has “locusts new-sloughed or fully grown”; NASB has “locust or grasshopper”; NIV has “locusts or grasshoppers”; NRSV has “locust, or caterpillar.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:29 tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:29 tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:30 tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.
- 2 Chronicles 6:30 tn Heb “and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 28-30a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.
- 2 Chronicles 6:30 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of the sons of mankind.”
2 Chronicles 6:28-30
New International Version
2 Chronicles 6:28-30
New International Version
28 “When famine(A) or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come, 29 and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel—being aware of their afflictions and pains, and spreading out their hands toward this temple— 30 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive,(B) and deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know the human heart),(C)
2 Chronicles 6:28-30
King James Version
2 Chronicles 6:28-30
King James Version
28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
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