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Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
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:)
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

6:23 hear thou from heaven. Eight times in Solomon’s prayer, he beseeches God to “hear from heaven” (II Chronicles 6:21,23,25,27,30,33,35,39) when His people confess their sins and pray for deliverance. It is another great mystery that God, whose “dwelling place” is in heaven (II Chronicles 6:21,30,33,39), can actually hear the prayers (even the prayers uttered silently) of people here on Earth. Yet, though He dwells in heaven, He is also omnipresent, by His Holy Spirit, and He is also omniscient—so He hears and knows!


6:25 again unto the land. Thus Solomon realized that, even though they indeed occupied all the promised land, there was still a possibility that they could be cast out of it if they forgot God, as Moses had prophesied long before (e.g., Deuteronomy 4:27; Leviticus 26:33). Still, knowing God’s unconditional promise to Abraham (Genesis 13:14-17; 15:18-21), Solomon could also pray in faith that God would bring them again back into the land.


6:30 knowest the hearts. Compare John 2:25. Jesus is God, and God knows.


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