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2 ChroniclesWEB
2 Chronicles 7:1WEB
Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:2WEB
The priests could not enter into Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:3WEB
All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever!”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:4WEB
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:5WEB
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 God’s house.
2 Chronicles 7:6WEB
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 “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:7WEB
Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before Yahweh’s 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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:8WEB
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.
2 Chronicles 7:9WEB
On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
2 Chronicles 7:10WEB
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, to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:11WEB
Thus Solomon finished Yahweh’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in Yahweh’s house and in his own house.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:12WEB
Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:13WEB
“If 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,
2 Chronicles 7:14WEB
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.
2 Chronicles 7:15WEB
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
2 Chronicles 7:16WEB
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.
2 Chronicles 7:17WEB
“As 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,
2 Chronicles 7:18WEB
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’
2 Chronicles 7:19WEB
But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
2 Chronicles 7:20WEB
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.
2 Chronicles 7:21WEB
This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 7:22WEB
They shall answer, ‘Because 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.’”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.