2 CHRONICLES 6:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.”
'If someone sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes before your altar in this house — The first specific circumstance: when one person wrongs another and the wrongdoer comes before the temple altar to take an oath (וּנִשְׁמַר עַל־מִזְבַּח־זֶה בַּבַּיִת הַזֶּה), appealing to God as witness to the oath. The temple altar becomes the place where justice is administered and oaths are sworn. The petition assumes that people in dispute would appeal to the temple as neutral, divinely sanctioned space for justice. The coming before the altar 'in this house' anchors the appeal in the sacred precinct. The Chronicler's abridgment of this section (compared to 1 Kings 8:31–53) omits extensive details of various calamities but preserves the principle.
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