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Illustrative possiblecaptivityprayer: ancientIsraelite family inhumbled linenkneels byforeignriverbank, faces westtowardhomeland beyondhorizon, openshands inrepentance, earlyevening mutedbluegold. No rebuilt temple orSolomon, no readabletext.
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2 Chronicles 6:37-39

Turning Back in Captivity

Solomon’s Prayer for the House · 2 Chronicles 6

Story guide: A displaced family prays in a foreign setting, illustrating repentance during captivity.

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37and if they come to their senses in the land where they were taken captive, and turn back and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have acted perversely, and we have acted wickedly,’

38and they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they were taken captive, and pray toward their land that you gave to their fathers, and toward the city that you have chosen, and toward the house that I have built for your name,

39then hear from heaven, from the place where you dwell, their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

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