2 Chronicles 7

1Now 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.Cross-references: Gen 15:17 · Ex 29:43 · Ex 40:34 · Lev 9:23 · Judg 6:21 · 1Ki 8:10 · +16 more

2The priests could not enter into Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Ex 24:17 · 2Chr 5:14 · Isa 6:5 · Rev 15:8

3All 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!”Cross-references: Ex 4:31 · Lev 9:24 · Num 14:5 · Num 16:22 · 1Ki 18:39 · 1Chr 16:41 · +11 more

4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:62

5King 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.Cross-references: Num 7:10 · 1Ki 8:62 · 1Chr 29:21 · 2Chr 1:6 · 2Chr 2:4 · 2Chr 5:6 · +8 more

6The 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.Cross-references: Num 10:1 · Josh 6:4 · 1Chr 6:31 · 1Chr 13:8 · 1Chr 15:16 · 1Chr 15:24 · +15 more

7Moreover 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.Cross-references: Num 16:37 · 1Ki 8:64 · 2Chr 4:1 · 2Chr 36:14 · Heb 13:10

8So 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.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Lev 23:34 · Num 29:12 · Num 34:5 · Deut 16:13 · Josh 13:3 · +8 more

9On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.Cross-references: Lev 23:36 · Deut 16:8 · 1Ki 8:65 · 2Chr 30:23 · Neh 8:18 · Joel 1:14

10On 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.Cross-references: Ex 18:1 · Deut 12:7 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 12:18 · Deut 16:11 · Deut 16:14 · +13 more

11Thus 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:1 · 2Chr 2:1 · Eccl 2:4 · Eccl 2:10

12Then 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.Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:11 · 1Ki 9:2 · 2Ki 2:6 · 2Ki 20:5 · +9 more

13“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,Cross-references: Ex 10:4 · Num 14:12 · Num 16:46 · Deut 11:17 · 2Sam 24:13 · 2Chr 6:26 · +10 more

14if 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.Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 30:1 · 2Chr 6:27 · 2Chr 6:30 · 2Chr 6:37 · +16 more

15Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.Cross-references: Deut 11:12 · 2Chr 6:20 · 2Chr 6:40 · Neh 1:6 · Ps 65:2 · Ps 130:2 · +1 more

16For 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.Cross-references: Deut 12:21 · Deut 16:11 · 1Ki 8:16 · 1Ki 8:35 · 1Ki 8:44 · 1Ki 8:48 · +13 more

17“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,Cross-references: Deut 4:40 · Deut 28:1 · 1Ki 2:3 · 1Ki 3:14 · 1Ki 8:25 · 1Ki 9:4 · +7 more

18then 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.’Cross-references: 2Sam 7:13 · 1Ki 9:5 · 2Chr 6:16 · Ps 89:28 · Ps 132:11 · Jer 33:20 · +1 more

19But 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,Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:23 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 28:36 · Josh 23:15 · +4 more

20then 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:37 · Deut 29:28 · 1Ki 9:7 · 1Ki 14:15 · 2Ki 17:20 · Neh 4:1 · +9 more

21This 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?’Cross-references: Deut 29:24 · 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 29:8 · Jer 5:19 · Jer 13:22 · Jer 16:10 · +5 more

22They 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.’”Cross-references: Judg 2:12 · 2Chr 36:17 · Jer 1:16 · Lam 2:16 · Lam 4:13 · Ezek 14:23 · +2 more