Bible Strands
2 Chronicles 6:36
When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Solomon addresses God during the temple dedication prayer, outlining a future scenario where Israel’s collective rebellion triggers divine judgment and exile.
The words — יֶחֶטְאוּ (ye.chet.'u-) means "they will sin," and אֵין (ein) translates literally as "there not," establishing the universal scope of human failure without merging the two Hebrew conjunctions כִּי (ki) that frame the clause.
The thread — The declaration that no one avoids sinning appears in Ecclesiastes 7:20, James 3:2, and 1 John 1:8, consistently marking universal human moral failure.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that sin inevitably produces consequences, yet it simultaneously provides the exact words for repentance when exile occurs.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
Cross-references
- Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
- James 3:2 We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
- 1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Psalms 130:3 If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Psalms 143:2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Leviticus 26:34 Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
- Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:36 The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.