OLD TESTAMENT

2 Chronicles 6:38

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

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Verse 38. Name. Hence arose the custom of turning towards Jerusalem and the temple, when the Jews poured for their supplications, in any country. 3 Kennicott. 8:44.

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