2 Chronicles 6:35
in 2 Chronicles 6then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
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ASV
then hear thou from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
KJV
Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 6
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
When Your people go to war against their enemies
on 2 Chronicles 6:34-35
The sixth petition covers an army sent “wherever You send them,” praying toward the chosen city and the house from a distance. This repeats 1 Kings 8:44-45 with no change in sense. It is one of the shortest petitions in the prayer and asks only that God “uphold their cause”.
This site's exposition
uphold their cause
Uphold their cause asks God to take the side of His army and maintain its right. The same plea returns at verse 39 for captives. Wesley notes that Solomon asks God to help His people in answer to their prayers, here prayed from the field of war.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
But here he declares upon what inducements he undertook it, and they are such as not only justify, but magnify, the undertaking. He did it for the glory and honour of God; this was his highest and ultimate end in it. It was for the name of the Lord God of Israel (
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The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙ | veshama'ta | and you will hear | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם | hashamayim | the heavens | H8064 → | 421 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| תְּפִלָּתָ֖ם | tefilatam | prayer their | H8605 → | 72 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם | techinatam | supplication their | H8467 → | 25 times |
| וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ | veasita | and you will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃ | mishpatam | justice their | H4941 → | 422 times |
וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙and you will hear
veshama'taH8085 →1159 times
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַשָּׁמַ֔יִםthe heavens
hashamayimH8064 →421 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
תְּפִלָּתָ֖םprayer their
tefilatamH8605 →72 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
תְּחִנָּתָ֑םsupplication their
techinatamH8467 →25 times
וְעָשִׂ֖יתָand you will do
veasitaH6213 →2628 times
מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃justice their
mishpatamH4941 →422 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the…
it leads to
- Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
- Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
- Psalms 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.
- Jeremiah 7:6
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
- Isaiah 1:23
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.