2 Chronicles 7
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v1
Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yahwehโs glory filled the house.
v2
The priests could not enter into Yahwehโs house, because Yahwehโs glory filled Yahwehโs house.
v3
All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahwehโs glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, โFor he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.โ
v4
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.
v5
King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated Godโs house.
v6
The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying โFor his loving kindness endures forever.โ The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
v7
Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before Yahwehโs house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat.
v8
So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
v9
On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
v10
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
v11
Thus Solomon finished Yahwehโs house and the kingโs house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomonโs heart to make in Yahwehโs house and in his own house.
v12
Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, โI have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
v13
โIf I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
v14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
v15
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
v16
For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.
v17
โAs for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
v18
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, โThere shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.โ
v19
But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
v20
then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
v21
This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, โWhy has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?โ
v22
They shall answer, โBecause they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.โโ