Thematic Bible
2 Chronicles 7:1 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 7:2 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 7:3 (show verse)
All the sons of Israel, seeing the fire come down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave praise to the Lord, saying, “Truly He is good, truly His lovingkindness is everlasting.”
2 Chronicles 7:4 (show verse)
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2 Chronicles 7:5 (show verse)
King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. Thus the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
2 Chronicles 7:6 (show verse)
The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites also, with the instruments of music to the Lord, which King David had made for giving praise to the Lord—“for His lovingkindness is everlasting”—whenever he gave praise by their means, while the priests on the other side blew trumpets; and all Israel was standing.
2 Chronicles 7:7 (show verse)
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2 Chronicles 7:8 (show verse)
So Solomon observed the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly who came from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 7:9 (show verse)
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days and the feast seven days.
2 Chronicles 7:10 (show verse)
Then on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness that the Lord had shown to David and to Solomon and to His people Israel.
2 Chronicles 7:11 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 7:12 (show verse)
Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
2 Chronicles 7:13 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 7:14 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 7:15 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 7:16 (show verse)
For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
2 Chronicles 7:17 (show verse)
As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances,
2 Chronicles 7:18 (show verse)
then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’
2 Chronicles 7:19 (show verse)
“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 7:20 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 7:21 (show verse)
As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
2 Chronicles 7:22 (show verse)
And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.’”