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2 Chronicles 6:22

If ony man synneth ayens his neiybore, and cometh redi to swere ayens him, and byndith hym silf with cursyng bifor the auter in this hows,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   God;   Heart;   Jerusalem;   Knowledge;   Name;   Prayer;   Rendering;   Sin;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer, Public;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Chronicles, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Oath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Synagogue;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Oath;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Oath,;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If a man sins against his neighborand is forced to take an oathand he comes to take an oathbefore your altar in this temple,
Hebrew Names Version
If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
King James Version
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
English Standard Version
"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,
New Century Version
"If someone wrongs another person, he will be brought to the altar in this Temple. If he swears an oath that he is not guilty,
New English Translation
"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,
Amplified Bible
"If a man sins against his neighbor, and he is required to take an oath, and he comes and takes the oath before Your altar in this house,
New American Standard Bible
"If someone sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,
World English Bible
If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
Geneva Bible (1587)
When a man shall sinne against his neighbour, and he laye vpon him an othe to cause him to sweare, and the swearer shal come before thine altar in this house,
Legacy Standard Bible
"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,
Berean Standard Bible
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,
Contemporary English Version
Suppose someone accuses a person of a crime, and the accused has to stand in front of the altar in your temple and say, "I swear I am innocent!"
Complete Jewish Bible
"If a person sins against a fellow member of the community, and he is made to swear under oath, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
Darby Translation
If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
Easy-to-Read Version
"Whoever does wrong to someone will be brought to this altar. If they are not guilty, they will make an oath and promise that they are innocent.
George Lamsa Translation
If a man should offend his neighbor, and it is decreed upon him that he should take an oath, and he should come and swear before thy altar in this house;
Good News Translation
"When people are accused of wronging others and are brought to your altar in this Temple to take an oath that they are innocent,
Lexham English Bible
"If a man sins against his neighbor and makes him swear an oath and comes with an oath before your altar in this house,
Literal Translation
If a man shall sin against his neighbor, and he shall lift up an oath on him, to cause him to swear, and he shall come and swear before Your altar in this house,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan eny ma synneth agaynst his neghboure, and an ooth be put vpon him which he ought to sweare, and the ooth commeth before thine altare in this house,
American Standard Version
If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house;
Bible in Basic English
If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If a man sinne against his neyghbour, and take an oth agaynst hym and make him to sweare, and they both come before thyne aulter in this house:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before Thine altar in this house;
King James Version (1611)
If a man sinne against his neighbour, and an oath be layd vpon him, to make him sweare, and the oath come before thine Altar in this house:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If a man sin against his neighbour, and he bring an oath upon him so as to make him swear, and he come and swear before the altar in this house;
English Revised Version
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come [and] swear before thine altar in this house:
Update Bible Version
If a man sins against his neighbor, and he is subjected to an oath to cause him to swear, and he comes [and] swears before your altar in this house;
Webster's Bible Translation
If a man shall sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath shall come before thy altar in this house;
New King James Version
"If anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple,
New Living Translation
"If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar at this Temple,
New Life Bible
"If a man sins against his neighbor, and has to make a promise, and he comes and makes a promise before Your altar in this house,
New Revised Standard
"If someone sins against another and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If a man shall sin against his neighbour, and there shall be laid upon him an oath, to put him on oath, - and an oath shall come before thine altar in this house,
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:
Revised Standard Version
"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and comes and swears his oath before thy altar in this house,
Young's Literal Translation
`If a man doth sin against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up on him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house --
THE MESSAGE
When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

Contextual Overview

12 Therfor Salomon stood bifor the auter of the Lord euene ayens al the multitude of Israel, and stretchide forth his hondis. 13 For Salomon hadde maad a brasun foundement, and hadde set it in the myddis of the greet hows, and it hadde fyue cubitis of lengthe, and fyue of breede, and thre cubitis of heiythe, and he stood theron; and fro that tyme he knelide ayens al the multitude of Israel, and reiside the hondis in to heuene, 14 and seide, Lord God of Israel, noon is lijk thee; `thou art God in heuene and in erthe, which kepist couenaunt and mercy with thi seruauntis, that goon bifor thee in al her herte; 15 which hast youe to Dauid thi seruaunt, my fadir, what euer thingis thou hast spoke to hym, and thow hast fillid in werk tho thingis, whiche thou bihiytist bi mouth, as also present tyme preueth. 16 Now therfor, Lord God of Israel, fille thou to thi seruaunt my fadir Dauid, what euer thingis thou hast spoke, seiynge, A man of thee schal not faile bifor me, that schal sitte on the trone of Israel; so netheles if thi sones kepen my weies, and goon in my lawe, as and thou hast go bifor me. 17 And now, Lord God of Israel, thi word be maad stidefast, which thou spakist to thi seruaunt Dauid. 18 Therfor whether it is leueful, that the Lord dwelle with men on erthe? If heuene and the heuenes of heuenes `taken not thee, how myche more this hows, which Y haue bildid? 19 But herto oneli it is maad, that thou, my Lord God, biholde the preier of thi seruaunt, and the bisechyng of hym, and that thou here the preieris, whiche thi seruaunt schedith bifor thee; 20 that thou opyne thin iyen on this hows bi dayes and nyytis, on the place in which thou bihiytist, that thi name schulde be clepid, 21 and that thou woldist here the preier, which thi seruaunt preieth therynne. Here thou the preieris of thi seruaunt, and of thi puple Israel; who euer preieth in this place, here thou fro thi dwellyng place, that is, fro heuenes, and do thou merci.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sin: 1 Kings 8:31, 1 Kings 8:32

and an oath: etc. Heb. and he require an oath of him, Exodus 22:11, Leviticus 5:1, Proverbs 30:9

the oath: Numbers 5:19-22, Matthew 23:18

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 19:4 - sin against Nehemiah 5:12 - I called

Cross-References

Genesis 6:3
And God seide, My spirit schal not dwelle in man with outen ende, for he is fleisch; and the daies of hym schulen be an hundrid and twenti yeer.
Genesis 6:4
Sotheli giauntis weren on erthe in tho daies, forsothe aftir that the sones of God entriden to the douytris of men, and tho douytris gendriden; these weren myyti of the world and famouse men.
Genesis 6:7
and seide, Y schal do awei man, whom Y made of nouyt, fro the face of the erthe, fro man til to lyuynge thingis, fro crepynge beeste til to the briddis of heuene; for it repentith me that Y made hem.
Genesis 6:8
Forsothe Noe foond grace bifore the Lord.
Genesis 7:5
Therfor Noe dide alle thingis whiche the Lord comaundide to hym.
Genesis 7:9
bi tweyne and bi tweyne, male and female entriden to Noe in to the schip, as the Lord comaundide to Noe.
Genesis 7:16
And tho that entriden, entriden male and female of ech fleisch, as God comaundide to hym. And the Lord encloside hym fro with out-forth.
Genesis 17:23
Forsothe Abraham took Ismael, his sone, and alle the borun seruauntis of his hous, and alle which he hadde bouyte, alle the malis of alle men of his hous, and circumsidide the fleisch of her yerde, anoon in that dai, as the Lord comaundide him.
Exodus 40:16
And Moises dide alle thingis whiche the Lord comaundide.
Exodus 40:19
and `spredde abrood the roof on the tabernacle, and puttide an hilyng aboue, as the Lord comaundide.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Kings (marginal references).

Compare Kings (marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 6:22. If a man sin against his neighbour — For the SEVEN cases put here by Solomon in his prayer, see the notes on 1 Kings 8:31-46.


 
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