2 Chronicles 6:36 meaning and explanation

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,

2 Chronicles 6:36, Berean Standard Bible

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Solomon prays at the dedication of the temple in Jerusalem, and here he looks ahead to a future his people cannot avoid. The parenthetical line, that there is no one who does not sin, is a clear-eyed admission of human frailty rather than an excuse.

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