2Chronicles 7:3 - Prayer Tents



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2Chronicles 7
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The Glory of God Fills the Temple

7As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire descended from heaven and burned up the burnt offerings and sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.H8010H3615H6419H784H3381H8064H398H5930H2077H3519H3068H4390H1004
2The priests could not enter into the temple because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's temple.H3548H3201H935H1004H3068H3519H3068H4390H3068H1004
3When all of the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord resting on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshipped, and gave thanks to the Lord, "Because he is good; because his gracious love is eternal."H1121H3478H7200H784H3381H3519H3068H1004H3766H639H776H7531H7812H3034H3068H2896H2617H5769
4Then the king and all the people kept on offering sacrifices in the presence of the Lord.H4428H5971H2076H2077H6440H3068
5King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep, which is how the king and all of the people dedicated God's temple.H4428H8010H2076H2077H6242H8147H505H1241H3967H6242H505H6629H4428H5971H2596H1004H430
6The priests stood in waiting at their assigned placed, along with the Levites who carried musical instruments used in service to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord - because his gracious love is eternal - whenever David, accompanied by priests sounding trumpets, offered praises while all of Israel stood in the assembly.H3548H5975H4931H3881H3627H7892H3068H1732H4428H6213H3034H3068H2617H5769H1732H1984H3027H3548H2690H2690H3478H5975
7Solomon also dedicated the middle of the court in front of the Lord's temple by offering there burnt offerings and fat from peace offerings because the bronze altar that Solomon had made could not contain the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and fat portion offerings.H8010H6942H8432H2691H6440H1004H3068H6213H5930H2459H8002H5178H4196H8010H6213H3201H3557H5930H4503H2459
8At that time Solomon also held a week-long festival attended by all of Israel. The assembly was very large, and included people from as far away as Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.H6256H8010H6213H2282H7651H3117H3478H3966H1419H6951H935H2574H5158H4714
9On the day after the festival ended, they convened a solemn assembly, because they had been dedicating the altar for seven days and observing the feast for seven days.H8066H3117H6213H6116H6213H2598H4196H7651H3117H2282H7651H3117
10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, King Solomon sent the people back home, and they returned rejoicing and in good spirits because of the goodness that the Lord had shown to David, to Solomon, and to his people Israel.H7969H6242H3117H7637H2320H7971H5971H7971H168H8056H2896H3820H2896H3068H6213H1732H8010H3478H5971
11And so Solomon completed the Lord's temple, bringing to completion everything that he had planned on doing for the Lord's temple and for his own palace.H8010H3615H1004H3068H4428H1004H935H8010H3820H6213H1004H3068H1004H6743

God Appears to Solomon

12Later, the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night and told him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for a sacrificial temple to me.H3068H7200H8010H3915H559H8085H8605H977H4725H1004H2077
13Whenever I close the skies so there is no rain, or whenever I command locusts to lay waste to the land, or whenever I send epidemics among my people,H2005H6113H8064H4306H6680H2284H398H776H7971H1698H5971
14when my people humble themselves - the ones who are called by my name - and pray, seek me, and turn away from their evil practices, I myself will listen from heaven, I will pardon their sins, and I will restore their land.H5971H7121H8034H3665H6419H1245H6440H7725H7451H1870H8085H8064H5545H2403H7495H776
15"Now therefore my eyes will remain open and my ears will remain listening to the prayers that are offered in this place.H5869H6605H241H7183H8605H4725
16Furthermore, I have chosen and have set apart for myself this temple, intending my name to reside there forever. My eyes and my heart will reside there everyday.H977H6942H1004H8034H5704H5769H5869H3820H3117
17Now as for you, if you commune with me like your father did, doing everything that I have commanded you, including obeying my statutes and my legal decisions,H3212H6440H1732H1H1980H6213H6680H8104H2706H4941
18then I will make your royal throne secure, just as I agreed to do for your father David when I said, 'You are to not lack a man to rule over Israel.'717H6965H3678H4438H3772H1732H1H559H3772H376H4910H3478
19"But if you turn away and abandon my statutes and my commands that I have given you, and if you walk away to serve other gods and worship them,H7725H5800H2708H4687H5414H6440H1980H5647H312H430H7812
20then I will tear them up by the roots from the ground that I had given them! And as for this temple that I have set apart for my name, I will throw it out of my sight and make it the butt of jokes and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!H5428H127H5414H1004H6942H8034H7993H6440H5414H4912H8148H5971
21"Furthermore, even though this temple seems so exalted, everyone who passes by it will so astounded that they will ask, 'Why did the Lord do this to this land and to this temple?'H1004H5945H8074H5674H559H3068H6213H776H1004
22They will answer, 'Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, who brought them from the land of Egypt, adopted other gods, worshiped them, and served them, therefore the Lord has brought all of this disaster on them.'"H559H5800H3068H430H1H3318H776H4714H2388H312H430H7812H5647H935H7451


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