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2 Chronicles 7:15

Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   God;   Prayer;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Places;   Sacred Places;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My eyes will now be open and my ears attentive to prayer from this place.
Hebrew Names Version
Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
King James Version
Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
English Standard Version
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
New Century Version
Now I will see them, and I will listen to the prayers prayed in this place.
New English Translation
Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.
Amplified Bible
"Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer offered in this place.
New American Standard Bible
"Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
World English Bible
Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then mine eies shalbe open & mine eares attent vnto the prayer made in this place.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
Berean Standard Bible
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
Contemporary English Version
I will hear the prayers made in this temple,
Complete Jewish Bible
Now my eyes will be open and my ears will pay attention to the prayer made in this place.
Darby Translation
Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attentive to the prayer [made] in this place;
Easy-to-Read Version
Now, my eyes are open, and my ears will pay attention to the prayers prayed in this place.
George Lamsa Translation
And even now my eyes shall be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
Good News Translation
I will watch over this Temple and be ready to hear all the prayers that are offered here,
Lexham English Bible
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
Literal Translation
Now My eyes shall be open, and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So shal myne eyes now be open, and myne eares shal be attente vnto prayer in this place.
American Standard Version
Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And from hencefoorth myne eyes shalbe open, and myne eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now Mine eyes shall be open, and Mine ears attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place.
King James Version (1611)
Now mine eyes shalbe open, and mine eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
English Revised Version
Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And myn iyen schulen be openyd, and myn eeren schulen be reisid to the preiere of hym, that preieth in this place;
Update Bible Version
Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer [that is made] in this place.
New King James Version
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.
New Living Translation
My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place.
New Life Bible
Now My eyes will be open. And My ears will hear the prayer that is made in this place.
New Revised Standard
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, mine eyes, shall be open, and, mine ears, attent, - to the prayer of this place.
Douay-Rheims Bible
My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.
Revised Standard Version
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
Young's Literal Translation
`Now, Mine eyes are open, and Mine ears attentive, to the prayer of this place;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Contextual Overview

12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made. 13 If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people; 14 If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place. 16 For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times. 17 And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions: 18 Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel. 19 But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship: 20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples. 21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mine eyes: 2 Chronicles 6:20, 2 Chronicles 6:40, Deuteronomy 11:12, Nehemiah 1:6, Psalms 65:2, Psalms 130:2, 1 Peter 3:12

that is made in this place: Heb. of this place, 2 Chronicles 6:40

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:29 - That thine 1 Kings 9:3 - mine eyes 2 Kings 19:1 - went into 2 Chronicles 7:16 - eyes Psalms 17:1 - attend Zechariah 12:4 - I will open

Cross-References

Genesis 7:19
And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
Genesis 7:20
The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.
Isaiah 11:6
And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prayer that is made in this place - literally, as in the margin. The unsual phrase includes the two cases of prayers offered in 2 Chronicles 6:24 and toward 2 Chronicles 6:34, 2 Chronicles 6:38 the sanctuary.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 7:15. Now mine eyes shall be open — It shall be pleasing to me in the sight of my WORD, that I should incline mine ear," &c. - Targum.


 
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