Throughout the prayer, God’s pardon is expressed by a divine act of restoration: ‘bring them again to the land’ (v. 25), ‘grant rain upon thy land’ (v. 27), etc. The Chronicler rephrases the reference to ‘the land which thou gavest to their fathers’ (I Kings 8.34) to read: ‘the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers’ (v. 25). This slight alteration reflects a very Chronistic view (Japhet, Ideology, 386ff): the land was not given at one time to ‘the fathers’, to be automatically inherited by later generations; each Israelite receives the inheritance anew, and must prove himself
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