2 Chronicles 7:14 (LSB)

Passage

and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then I will listen from heaven, I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 7:12 Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,

2 Chronicles 7:14 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then I will listen from heaven, I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:16 So now I have chosen and set this house apart as holy that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "called", "people", "name", "humble", "themselves", "pray", "seek", and "face". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "called" and "people", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "If I shut up the heavens so..." into verse 15's "Now My eyes will be open and...", so "called" and "people" belong inside that flow. In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "called" and "people" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.