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 …

and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in …

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and …

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and pleas, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.

the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I …

and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked …

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have …

But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have …

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the …

And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of …

Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the …

But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his …

So the people of Judah gathered to seek the LORD, and indeed, they came from all the cities of Judah to seek Him.

Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the LORD in front of the new courtyard

and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over …

Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?

They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,

‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is …

And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out …