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    2 Chronicles 7

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    The temple is filled with glory so thoroughly that its priests cannot enter, and later the same temple is pictured as a heap of rubble.

    Fire, overflowing sacrifice, and a very long feastvv. 1–10

    When Solomon finishes praying, fire falls from heaven and consumes the offerings, while the glory of the LORD fills the temple so completely that the priests cannot get inside. Israel bows on the pavement, and then the figures begin to march past: 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. The bronze altar cannot contain the offerings, so Solomon consecrates the middle of the courtyard and uses that instead. The feast lasts seven days, the solemn assembly follows, and on the twenty-third day Solomon sends the people home joyful and glad of heart.

    The temple chosen—and warnedvv. 11–22

    After the house of the LORD and the royal palace are finished, the LORD appears to Solomon at night. The place has been chosen as a house of sacrifice, with eyes and ears attentive to prayers. But the speech turns sharply: drought, locusts, and plague are named, followed by a promise of hearing, forgiveness, and healing if the people humble themselves, pray, seek the LORD, and turn from wicked ways. Solomon is also given a royal condition—walk as David walked, and the throne will be established. Turn away, serve other gods, and Israel will be uprooted while the sanctified temple becomes a heap of rubble, a public puzzle with a very plain answer.

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    1. 2 Chr 7:1When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

    2. 2 Chr 7:2The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it.

    3. 2 Chr 7:3When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”

    4. 2 Chr 7:4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

    5. 2 Chr 7:5And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

    6. 2 Chr 7:6The priests stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the musical instruments of the LORD, which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD and with which David had offered praise, saying, “For His loving devotion endures forever.” Across from the Levites, the priests sounded trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.

    7. 2 Chr 7:7Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not hold all these offerings.

    8. 2 Chr 7:8So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days.

    9. 2 Chr 7:9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.

    10. 2 Chr 7:10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

    11. 2 Chr 7:11When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,

    12. 2 Chr 7:12the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

    13. 2 Chr 7:13If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

    14. 2 Chr 7:14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

    15. 2 Chr 7:15Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

    16. 2 Chr 7:16For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

    17. 2 Chr 7:17And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

    18. 2 Chr 7:18then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’

    19. 2 Chr 7:19But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

    20. 2 Chr 7:20then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

    21. 2 Chr 7:21And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

    22. 2 Chr 7:22And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’”

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    • 14Lamentations 3:40–41Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
    • 14Isaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
    • 14James 4:9–10Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
    • 14Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
    • 142 Chronicles 6:37–39and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
    • 14Deuteronomy 4:29–30But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
    • 14Jeremiah 33:6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
    • 14Ezekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
    • 142 Chronicles 6:27then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
    • 14Leviticus 26:40–41But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
    • 14Acts 9:11“Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
    • 14Psalms 60:2You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.
    • 151 Peter 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
    • 132 Chronicles 6:26–28When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
    • 152 Chronicles 6:40Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
    • 162 Chronicles 7:15Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

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