31 so that they will fear you and walk in obedience to you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.

Other Translations of 2 Chronicles 6:31

King James Version

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.

English Standard Version

31 that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.

The Message

31 So they'll live before you in lifelong reverence and believing obedience on this land you gave our ancestors.

New King James Version

31 that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.

New Living Translation

31 Then they will fear you and walk in your ways as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Chronicles 6:31

Chapter Contents

Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple.

The order of Solomon's prayer is to be observed. First and chiefly, he prays for repentance and forgiveness, which is the chief blessing, and the only solid foundation of other mercies: he then prays for temporal mercies; thereby teaching us what things to mind and desire most in our prayers. This also Christ hath taught us in his perfect pattern and form of prayer, where there is but one prayer for outward, and all the rest are for spiritual blessings. The temple typified the human nature of Christ, in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. The ark typified his obedience and sufferings, by which repenting sinners have access to a reconciled God, and communion with him. Jehovah has made our nature his resting-place for ever, in the person of Emmanuel, and through him he dwells with, and delights in his church of redeemed sinners. May our hearts become his resting-place; may Christ dwell therein by faith, consecrating them as his temples, and shedding abroad his love therein. May the Father look upon us in and through his Anointed; and may he remember and bless us in all things, according to his mercy to sinners, in and through Christ.