40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
40 "Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
40 Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
40 And now, dear God, be alert and attentive to prayer, all prayer, offered in this place.
40 Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.
40 "OÂ my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to all the prayers made to you in this place.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Chronicles 6:40
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Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple.
The order of Solomon's prayer is to be observed. First and chiefly, he prays for repentance and forgiveness, which is the chief blessing, and the only solid foundation of other mercies: he then prays for temporal mercies; thereby teaching us what things to mind and desire most in our prayers. This also Christ hath taught us in his perfect pattern and form of prayer, where there is but one prayer for outward, and all the rest are for spiritual blessings. The temple typified the human nature of Christ, in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. The ark typified his obedience and sufferings, by which repenting sinners have access to a reconciled God, and communion with him. Jehovah has made our nature his resting-place for ever, in the person of Emmanuel, and through him he dwells with, and delights in his church of redeemed sinners. May our hearts become his resting-place; may Christ dwell therein by faith, consecrating them as his temples, and shedding abroad his love therein. May the Father look upon us in and through his Anointed; and may he remember and bless us in all things, according to his mercy to sinners, in and through Christ.