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so that they will fear you and walk in obedience to you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.

2 Chronicles 6:32   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm-when they come and pray toward this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:33   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.

2 Chronicles 6:34   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,

2 Chronicles 6:36   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"When they sin against you-for there is no one who does not sin-and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to a land far away or near;

2 Chronicles 6:37   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, 'We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly';

2 Chronicles 6:38   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name;

2 Chronicles 6:39   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their pleas, and uphold their cause. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you.

2 Chronicles 6:40   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

2 Chronicles 6:41   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"Now arise, Lord God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. May your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation, may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness.

2 Chronicles 6:42   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

Lord God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David your servant."

2 Chronicles 7:12   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 7)

the Lord appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

2 Chronicles 7:17   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 7)

"As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,

2 Chronicles 7:18   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 7)

I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.'

2 Chronicles 7:19   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 7)

"But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,

2 Chronicles 9:5   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 9)

She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.

2 Chronicles 9:6   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 9)

But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard.

2 Chronicles 9:7   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 9)

How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!

2 Chronicles 9:8   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 9)

Praise be to the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the Lord your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness."

2 Chronicles 10:4   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 10)

"Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you."

2 Chronicles 10:6   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 10)

Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. "How would you advise me to answer these people?" he asked.

2 Chronicles 10:7   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 10)

They replied, "If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants."

2 Chronicles 10:8   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 10)

But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

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He asked them, "What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?"