2Chronicles 7

7When 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.H8010H3615H6419H784H3381H8064H398H5930H2077H3519H3068H4390H10042The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it.H3548H3201H935H1004H3068H3519H3068H4390H3068H10043When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "He is good; his love endures forever."H1121H3478H7200H784H3381H3519H3068H1004H3766H639H776H7531H7812H3034H3068H2896H2617H57694Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.H4428H5971H2076H2077H6440H30685And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God.H4428H8010H2076H2077H6242H8147H505H1241H3967H6242H505H6629H4428H5971H2596H1004H4306The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the LORD's musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the LORD and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, "His love endures forever." Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.H3548H5975H4931H3881H3627H7892H3068H1732H4428H6213H3034H3068H2617H5769H1732H1984H3027H3548H2690H2690H3478H59757Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard 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 he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat portions.H8010H6942H8432H2691H6440H1004H3068H6213H5930H2459H8002H5178H4196H8010H6213H3201H3557H5930H4503H24598So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.H6256H8010H6213H2282H7651H3117H3478H3966H1419H6951H935H2574H5158H47149On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.H8066H3117H6213H6116H6213H2598H4196H7651H3117H2282H7651H311710On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the LORD had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel.H7969H6242H3117H7637H2320H7971H5971H7971H168H8056H2896H3820H2896H3068H6213H1732H8010H3478H597111When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace,H8010H3615H1004H3068H4428H1004H935H8010H3820H6213H1004H3068H1004H674312the LORD appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.H3068H7200H8010H3915H559H8085H8605H977H4725H1004H207713"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,H2005H6113H8064H4306H6680H2284H398H776H7971H1698H597114if 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.H5971H7121H8034H3665H6419H1245H6440H7725H7451H1870H8085H8064H5545H2403H7495H77615Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.H5869H6605H241H7183H8605H472516I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.H977H6942H1004H8034H5704H5769H5869H3820H311717"As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,H3212H6440H1732H1H1980H6213H6680H8104H2706H494118I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.'H6965H3678H4438H3772H1732H1H559H3772H376H4910H347819"But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,H7725H5800H2708H4687H5414H6440H1980H5647H312H430H781220then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.H5428H127H5414H1004H6942H8034H7993H6440H5414H4912H8148H597121This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'H1004H5945H8074H5674H559H3068H6213H776H100422People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.' "H559H5800H3068H430H1H3318H776H4714H2388H312H430H7812H5647H935H7451