2 Chronicles 6:36-40

Solomon's Prayer of Dedication

³⁶ "If they sin against you - _l for there is no one who does not sin - and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near, ³⁷ yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,' ³⁸ if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, ³⁹ then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you. ⁴⁰ Now, O my God, _m let your eyes be open _n and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

1. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 7:20
   Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
   James 3:2
   For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
   1 John 1:8
   If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
   
2. Cross References
   Nehemiah 1:6
   Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.
   Nehemiah 1:11
   O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cupbearer to the king.
   2 Chronicles 6:20
   That your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
   2 Chronicles 7:15
   Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 130:2
   O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!