2 Chronicles 6:20

6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live.¹ May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.²

2 Chronicles 6:22-23

6:22 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple,³ 6:23 listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.⁴

2 Chronicles 6:25

6:25 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.⁵

2 Chronicles 6:29

6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,⁶ as they acknowledge their intense pain⁷ and spread out their hands toward this temple,

2 Chronicles 9:5

9:5 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight⁸ was true!

2 Chronicles 10:4

10:4 “Your father made us work too hard!⁹ Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”¹⁰

2 Chronicles 10:7

10:7 They said to him, “If you are fair to these people, grant their request, and are cordial to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.”¹¹

2 Chronicles 10:9

10:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”¹²

2 Chronicles 28:10-11

28:10 And now you are planning¹³ to enslave¹⁴ the people¹⁵ of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God? 28:11 Now listen to me! Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the Lord is very angry at you!”¹⁶

2 Chronicles 30:7

30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors,¹⁷ provoking him to destroy them,¹⁸ as you can see.

¹tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

²tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

³tn Heb “and if the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.”

⁴tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by repaying the guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

⁵tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 38).

⁶tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

⁷tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”

⁸tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”

⁹tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”

¹⁰tn Heb “but you, now, lighten the burdensome work of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you.” In the Hebrew text the prefixed verbal form with vav (וְנַעַבְדֶךָ, vÿna’avdekha, “and we will serve you”) following the imperative (הָקֵל, haqel, “lighten”) indicates purpose/result. The conditional sentence used in the present translation is an attempt to bring out the logical relationship between these forms.

¹¹tn Heb “If today you are for good to these people and you are favorable to them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”

¹²tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

¹³tn Heb “saying.”

¹⁴tn Heb “to enslave as male servants and female servants.”

¹⁵tn Heb “sons.”

¹⁶tn Heb “for the rage of the anger of the Lord is upon you.”

¹⁷tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).

¹⁸tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).