7When 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.H8010H3615H6419H784H3381H8064H398H5930H2077H3519H3068H4390H1004 2And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.H3548H3201H935H1004H3068H3519H3068H4390H3068H1004 3When all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped and praised the LORD, saying: "For He is good, For His mercy endures forever."H1121H3478H7200H784H3381H3519H3068H1004H3766H639H776H7531H7812H3034H3068H2896H2617H5769 4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.H4428H5971H2076H2077H6440H3068 5King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.H4428H8010H2076H2077H6242H8147H505H1241H3967H6242H505H6629H4428H5971H2596H1004H430 6And the priests attended to their services; the Levites also with instruments of the music of the LORD, which King David had made to praise the LORD, saying, "For His mercy endures forever," whenever David offered praise by their ministry. The priests sounded trumpets opposite them, while all Israel stood.H3548H5975H4931H3881H3627H7892H3068H1732H4428H6213H3034H3068H2617H5769H1732H1984H3027H3548H2690H2690H3478H5975 7Furthermore Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat.H8010H6942H8432H2691H6440H1004H3068H6213H5930H2459H8002H5178H4196H8010H6213H3201H3557H5930H4503H2459 8At that time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt.H6256H8010H6213H2282H7651H3117H3478H3966H1419H6951H935H2574H5158H4714 9And on the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.H8066H3117H6213H6116H6213H2598H4196H7651H3117H2282H7651H3117 10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the good that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.H7969H6242H3117H7637H2320H7971H5971H7971H168H8056H2896H3820H2896H3068H6213H1732H8010H3478H5971 11Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the LORD and in his own house.H8010H3615H1004H3068H4428H1004H935H8010H3820H6213H1004H3068H1004H6743 12Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.H3068H7200H8010H3915H559H8085H8605H977H4725H1004H2077 13"When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,H2005H6113H8064H4306H6680H2284H398H776H7971H1698H5971 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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.H5971H7121H8034H3665H6419H1245H6440H7725H7451H1870H8085H8064H5545H2403H7495H776 15"Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.H5869H6605H241H7183H8605H4725 16"For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.H977H6942H1004H8034H5704H5769H5869H3820H3117 17"As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,H3212H6440H1732H1H1980H6213H6680H8104H2706H4941 18"then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.'H6965H3678H4438H3772H1732H1H559H3772H376H4910H3478 19"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,H7725H5800H2708H4687H5414H6440H1980H5647H312H430H7812 20"then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.H5428H127H5414H1004H6942H8034H7993H6440H5414H4912H8148H5971 21"And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?'H1004H5945H8074H5674H559H3068H6213H776H1004 22"Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.'"H559H5800H3068H430H1H3318H776H4714H2388H312H430H7812H5647H935H7451
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