Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 6:20

"that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place." — 2 Chronicles 6:20 (ASV)

Upon. — Unto or toward. "Day and night" ; Kings, "night and day" ; for which the chronicler has substituted a more usual phrase. The Syriac and Arabic follow Kings.

Prayeth. — Shall pray, namely, at any time.

Toward this place. — The margin is wrong, though supported by the Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate. The Temple of Jerusalem was, and is, the Kebla of a Jew. (Compare Daniel 6:10, and 2 Chronicles 6:34 below, which is a kind of paraphrase of this expression.)