Chapter 6

This chapter parallels 1 Kings 8 in large part.

2024 - This verse:

11 And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel." [2Ch 6:11 ESV].  So the Pentateuch is not in the Ark.  I would think you need the Pentateuch to cover all the statutes of the covenant God made with Israel.  The only Covenant in the Ark is the 10 Commandments, which were spoken aloud in the hearing of all Israel, not just Moses.  Nothing about required sacrifices there though.  Nothing about stoning for violating the Sabbath.  We know that the Mosaic Law was fulfilled in Christ and is no longer in effect as a Covenant with Israel, but the Ten?  God spoke them and the people - all the people, individually and not through any intermediary - agreed to them.  Does this mean that all Israel, even today, is still bound by the Ten, though some have the New Covenant superimposed on the Ten?  But the rest of us, we Gentiles, have only the New Covenant? 

This chapter repeats Solomon's prayer asking God to give ear particularly to prayers prayed in the direction of this Temple.  This surely refers to the geographic location of that Temple.  Why do we not do this?

32 "Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house, 33 hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name. [2Ch 6:32-33 ESV]

You don't have to be Israeli to pray toward the Temple, to be covered by Solomon's prayer for God to especially hear the prayers offered toward this place. 

2022 - There are seven pleas for God to "hear from heaven" when prayers are offered toward Jerusalem, toward the Temple.