2 Chronicles, Chapter 7:

Verses from 2 Chronicles, Chapter 7 of the book of 2 Chronicles of the Bible.

The consecration of the temple

• 1. As soon as Solomon 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. The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled it.
• 3. When all Israel saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they fell facedown to the ground and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “He is good; his love endures forever.”
• 4. Then the king and all Israel offered sacrifices to the Lord.
• 5. King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God.
• 6. The priests took their places, along with the Levites, who played the Lord's musical instruments, which King David had made to praise the Lord. On the other side, the priests were blowing their trumpets. All the people stood.
• 7. Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard that was in front of the temple of the Lord, and there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not large enough to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat portions.
• 8. Solomon and all Israel celebrated the festival for seven days, and there was a great crowd from Lebo Hamath to the River of Egypt.
• 9. On the eighth day there was a solemn assembly. They dedicated the altar for seven days, and the feast continued for another seven days.
• 10. On the twenty-third day of the seventh month the king sent the people away to their homes. They went away joyful and glad because of the good things the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.

The Lord appears to Solomon

• 11. When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had accomplished all that he had planned for the temple of the Lord and for his own palace,
• 12. The Lord appeared to him at night and said, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple of sacrifice.
• 13. If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send a plague among my people,
• 14. If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
• 15. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
• 16. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there always.
• 17. But if you walk before me as your father David did, and do all that I command you, keeping my statutes and my commands,
• 18. I will establish your throne, according to the covenant I made with your father David when I said to him, 'You will never lack a man to rule over Israel.'
• 19. But if you turn away from me and forsake my commands and my statutes that I have given you, and go and worship and serve other gods,
• 20. I will uproot them from my land which I have given them, and I will cast out of my sight this temple which I have consecrated for my Name; and I will make it a byword and a byword among all peoples.
• 21. And all who pass by this temple, so imposing now, will be astonished and ask: 'Why has the Lord done this to this land and to this temple?'
• 22. And the answer will be: 'Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of Egypt, and they attached themselves to other gods, worshiping them and serving them. Therefore he brought all this evil on them.'"

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