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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will read from 2 Chronicles 7 during a nationwide Bible-reading event this week, a passage organizers say was deliberately reserved for the president because of its decades-long role as a call to prayer in America.
Trump is set to read 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 from the Oval Office as part of “America Reads the Bible,” a weeklong event marking 250 years of the Bible in America and featuring nearly 500 participants reading Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.
Organizers said Trump’s section was not assigned at random.
The event’s online schedule shows the 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 reading was reserved as a “special guest” slot during a prime evening hour on Tuesday, alongside figures like former HUD Secretary Ben Carson and members of Congress.
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In this photo shared with Fox News Digital, Bunni Pounds speaks at the lectern during the National Religious Broadcasters conference in Feb. 2026. (Courtesy of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB))
“We needed somebody special to read Second Chronicles chapter seven,” Bunni Pounds, founder and president of Christians Engaged, told Fox News Digital.
“As my director and I were praying over different sections of scripture, it came to us that this is such a critical passage for the body of Christ,” she said.
Pounds said the passage, particularly verse 14, has been central to American prayer life for decades, often invoked during times of national reflection.
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US President Donald Trump bows his head in prayer during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in February 5, 2026. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
“It comes at a time where the Israelites were experiencing hardship and God spoke and said, ‘If my people that are called by my name would humble…
