2 CHRONICLES 6:31

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.”

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2 Chronicles 6:31 Translation & Meaning

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That לְמַ֣עַן Properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that That
they may fear יִֽירָא֗וּךָ To fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten fear
thee, to walk לָלֶ֙כֶת֙ To walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively) walk
in thy ways, בִּדְרָכֶ֔יךָ A road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb ways
so long כָּל Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) long
as הַ֨יָּמִ֔ים A day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb) as
they הֵ֥ם They (only used when emphatic) they
live חַיִּ֖ים Alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively live
in עַל Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications in
the land הָֽאֲדָמָ֑ה Soil (from its general redness) land
which אֲשֶׁ֥ר Who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc which
thou gavest נָתַ֖תָּה To give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.) gavest
unto our fathers. לַֽאֲבֹתֵֽינוּ׃ Father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application fathers

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  • 29  Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

  • 30  Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

  • 31  That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

  • 32  Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

  • 33  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.




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