What Does 2 Chronicles 6:23 Mean?

thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you

“Then hear”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“thou from heaven”

the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r

“and do”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“and judge”

to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“thy servants”

a servant

“by requiting”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“the wicked”

morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person

“by giving”

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

“his way”

a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb

“upon his own head”

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

“and by justifying”

to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)

“the righteous”

just

“by giving”

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

“him according to his righteousness”

rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)