2Chr 7
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And when Solomon had finished praying, then the fire came down from heaven, and devoured
the whole-burnt-offerings and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the
house.
2
And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord at that time, for the glory
of the Lord filled the house.
3
And all the children of Israel saw the fire descending, and the glory of the Lord
was upon the house: and they fell upon their face to the ground on the pavement, and
worshiped, and praised the Lord; for Heb. he is good it is good to do so, because his mercy endures for ever.
4
And the king and all the people were offering sacrifices before the Lord.
5
And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of calves twenty and two thousand, of sheep a
hundred and twenty thousand: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of
God.
6
And the priests were standing at their watches, and the Levites with instruments of
music of the Lord, belonging to king David, to give thanks before the Lord, for his
mercy endures for ever, with the hymns of David, by their ministry: and the priests
were blowing the trumpets before them, and all Israel standing.
7
And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in the house of the Lord:
for he offered there the whole-burnt-offerings and the Gr. fats fat of the peace-offerings, for the brazen altar which Solomon
had made was not sufficient
to receive the whole-burnt-offerings, and the See Heb. meat-offerings, and the fat.
8
And Solomon kept the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very
great assembly, from the entering in of Æmath, and as far as the river of Egypt.
9
And on the eighth day he kept a solemn assembly: for he kept a feast of seven days
as the dedication of the altar.
10
And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he dismissed the people to their
tents, rejoicing, and with a glad heart because of the good deeds which the Lord had
done to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
11
So Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king’s house: and in whatever Solomon
wished in his Gr. soul heart to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house, he prospered.
12
And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer,
and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
13
If I should restrain the heaven and there should be no rain, and if I should command
the locust to devour the trees, and if I should send pestilence upon my people;
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then if my people, on whom my name is called, should Gr. be ashamed repent, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
evil ways, I also will hear
from heaven, and I will be merciful to their sins, and I will heal their land.
15
And now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
16
And now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that my name should be there for
ever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.
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And if you will walk before me as David your father did, and will do according to
all that I have commanded you, and will keep my ordinances and my judgements;
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then will I Gr. raise up establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying,
There shall not fail you a man ruling in Israel.
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But if you should turn away, and forsake my ordinances and my commandments, which
I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;
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then will I remove you from the land which I gave them; and this house which I have
consecrated to my name I will remove out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb
and a by-word among all nations.
21
And as for this lofty house, every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall
say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
22
And men shall say, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought
them out of the land of Egypt, and they attached themselves to other gods, and worshiped
them, and served them: and therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.