Verse 16 explains why God will hear: He has chosen and consecrated this house — the immediate reason for the promise.

2 Chronicles 6:20 is Solomon's request for God's eyes to be open; 2 Chronicles 7:15 is God's direct answer to that prayer.

2 Chronicles 6:40 repeats Solomon's request for open eyes and ears; God's response in 7:15 grants it.

Nehemiah 1:6 uses the same phrase 'let your ear be attentive and your eyes open' — a later prayer echoing Solomon's and God's promise.

In 1 Kings 8:29, Solomon asks that God's eyes be open toward the temple — the very request God now answers here.

1 Kings 9:3 records God's identical response to Solomon — a parallel account of the same promise to hear prayer at the temple.

1 Peter 3:12 affirms that God's ears are open to the righteous — a New Testament echo of the same principle of divine attentiveness to prayer.

Psalm 130:2 echoes the same plea for God's attentive ear to prayer, paralleling the promise here that God will hear temple prayers.