Bible Strands
2 Chronicles 6:33
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Solomon prays at the temple dedication, petitioning God to respond to a foreigner who has traveled from a distant land to pray toward the sanctuary.
The words — תִּשְׁמַע (tish.ma) translates “you will hear,” and עָשִׂיתָ (a.si.ta) translates “you will do,” structuring the petition as divine attention followed by concrete action.
The thread — The declaration that foreign nations will know Yahweh’s name and fear Him mirrors the priestly blessing of Numbers 6:27 and aligns with the conditional restoration framework of 2 Chronicles 7:14.
Why it lands — The text states that God’s name is revealed through responsive justice to all who fear Him, requiring readers to acknowledge that the temple’s purpose extends beyond Israel to encompass every nation that recognizes His authority.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- Numbers 6:27 So they shall put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
- 1 Samuel 17:46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:16 ‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- 2 Kings 19:19 And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
- Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
- Psalms 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Psalms 67:2 that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
- Psalms 138:4 All the kings of the earth will give You thanks, O LORD, when they hear the words of Your mouth.
- Isaiah 11:10 On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.