2 Chronicles 7:14 (WEB)

Passage

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Nearby Context

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

2 Chronicles 7:13 “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:15 Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:16 For now I have chosen and made this house 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 sky so..." into verse 15's "Now my eyes will be open my...", 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.