2 Chronicles 6:22
New International Version
“When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

New Living Translation
“If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar at this Temple,

English Standard Version
“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,

Berean Standard Bible
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

King James Bible
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

New King James Version
“If anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple,

New American Standard Bible
“If someone sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

NASB 1995
“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

NASB 1977
“If a man sins against his neighbor, and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Thine altar in this house,

Legacy Standard Bible
“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

Amplified Bible
“If a man sins against his neighbor, and he is required to take an oath, and he comes and takes the oath before Your altar in this house,

Christian Standard Bible
If a man sins against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath and he comes to take an oath before your altar in this temple,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If a man sins against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

American Standard Version
If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house;

Contemporary English Version
Suppose someone accuses a person of a crime, and the accused has to stand in front of the altar in your temple and say, "I swear I am innocent!"

English Revised Version
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If anyone sins against another person and is required to take an oath and comes to take the oath in front of your altar in this temple,

Good News Translation
"When people are accused of wronging others and are brought to your altar in this Temple to take an oath that they are innocent,

International Standard Version
"If a man sins against his neighbor and he is required to take an oath, and he then comes to take an oath in front of your altar in this Temple,

Majority Standard Bible
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

NET Bible
"When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple,

New Heart English Bible
"If a man sins against his neighbor and obliges him to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before your altar in this house;

Webster's Bible Translation
If a man shall sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath shall come before thy altar in this house;

World English Bible
“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
If a man sins against his neighbor, and he has lifted up an oath on him to cause him to swear, and the oath has come in before Your altar in this house—

Young's Literal Translation
'If a man doth sin against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up on him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house --

Smith's Literal Translation
If a man shall sin against his neighbor, and he lifted up an oath upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath coming before thine altar in this house;
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:

Catholic Public Domain Version
If anyone will have sinned against his neighbor, and he arrives to swear against him, and to bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house,

New American Bible
“If someone sins against a neighbor and is required to take an oath sanctioned by a curse, and comes and takes the oath before your altar in this house,

New Revised Standard Version
“If someone sins against another and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house,
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
If a man should offend his neighbor, and it is decreed upon him that he should take an oath, and he should come and swear before thy altar in this house;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
If it is that a son of man will do wrong against his fellow man and he would decree oaths upon him for his oaths, and he would come and would swear before your altar in this house
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before Thine altar in this house;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
If a man sin against his neighbour, and he bring an oath upon him so as to make him swear, and he come and swear before the altar in this house;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
21Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive. 22When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple, 23then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:16-19
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime, / both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time. / The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother, ...

Exodus 22:10-11
If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching, / an oath before the LORD shall be made between the parties to determine whether or not the man has taken his neighbor’s property. The owner must accept the oath and require no restitution.

Matthew 5:33-37
Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ / But I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; / or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. ...

1 Kings 8:31-32
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple, / then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

Leviticus 6:2-5
“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor / or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit— / once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found, ...

Numbers 5:19-22
And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse. / But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’— / and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell. ...

Psalm 15:1-4
A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? / He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart, / who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend, ...

James 5:12
Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.

Matthew 23:16-22
Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ / You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred? / And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’ ...

Hebrews 6:16
Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.

Zechariah 5:3-4
Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed. / I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”

Jeremiah 7:9-11
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? / Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

Isaiah 48:1
“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—

Ezekiel 17:16-20
‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke. / Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives. / He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’ ...

Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.


Treasury of Scripture

If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to make him swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house;

sin

1 Kings 8:31,32
If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: …

and an oath, etc.

Exodus 22:11
Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

Leviticus 5:1
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Proverbs 30:9
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

the oath

Numbers 5:19-22
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: …

Matthew 23:18
And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

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If a man sins against his neighbor
This phrase introduces the concept of interpersonal sin, which is a recurring theme in the Bible. The Hebrew word for "sins" is "חָטָא" (chata), meaning to miss the mark or to err. This highlights the human propensity to fall short of God's standards, especially in relationships with others. The phrase underscores the importance of justice and reconciliation in the community, reflecting the biblical principle that our relationships with others are a reflection of our relationship with God.

and is required to take an oath
The taking of an oath in ancient Israel was a serious matter, often involving invoking God's name as a witness to one's truthfulness. The Hebrew word for "oath" is "שְׁבוּעָה" (shevu'ah), which implies a solemn promise or declaration. This practice was rooted in the belief that God is the ultimate judge of truth and falsehood. The requirement to take an oath indicates a formal process of seeking justice and truth, emphasizing the gravity of honesty and integrity in resolving disputes.

and he comes to take an oath before Your altar
The altar in the temple was a sacred place where God's presence was believed to dwell. Coming before the altar to take an oath signifies seeking divine witness and intervention in the matter. The altar represents a place of sacrifice and atonement, symbolizing the need for divine forgiveness and reconciliation. This act of coming before the altar underscores the belief that God is actively involved in the affairs of His people and that true justice is found in His presence.

in this house
"This house" refers to the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem, which was the central place of worship for the Israelites. The temple was not only a physical structure but also a symbol of God's covenant with His people. It served as a reminder of God's faithfulness and the importance of maintaining a right relationship with Him. The phrase emphasizes the temple's role as a place of divine encounter and the centrality of worship in the life of the community.

(22) If a man sin.--Kings, "whatever a man sin."

And an oath be laid upon him.--And he (i.e., his neighbour or, indefinitely, people) lay an oath upon him. (See Exodus 22:11.)

And the oath come before thine altar.--And he (the offender) enter upon an oath before thine altar. (Comp. Ezekiel 17:13.) But all the versions have, "and he come, and swear before thine altar," a difference which involves merely the prefixing of one letter (w) to the Hebrew word rendered "oath."

Verse 22. - And an oath be laid upon him to make him swear. This verse is explained by Exodus 22:9-11; Leviticus 6:1-5. The case of ordeal by self-purgation of oath is supposed. And the oath come. The Septuagint translates here, "and he come and declare by oath," etc. - a translation which a very slight alteration in the Hebrew, consisting in prefixing a vau to the word for swear, will allow. The Vulgate follows the Septuagint.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

a man
אִישׁ֙ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

sins
יֶחֱטָ֥א (ye·ḥĕ·ṭā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn

against his neighbor
לְרֵעֵ֔הוּ (lə·rê·‘ê·hū)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

and is required
וְנָֽשָׁא־ (wə·nā·šā-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

to take an oath,
אָלָ֖ה (’ā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 422: To adjure, imprecate

and he comes
וּבָ֗א (ū·ḇā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to take an oath
לְהַֽאֲלֹת֑וֹ (lə·ha·’ă·lō·ṯōw)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 423: An imprecation

before
לִפְנֵ֥י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

Your altar
מִֽזְבַּחֲךָ֖ (miz·ba·ḥă·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4196: An altar

in this
הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

temple,
בַּבַּ֥יִת (bab·ba·yiṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house


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