2 Chronicles 7
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Now when Solomon had made an end of
praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt
offering and the sacrifices; Lev. 9.23, 24 and
the glory of the LORD filled the
house.
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And the priests could not enter into the
house of the LORD, because the glory of the
LORD had filled the LORD's
house.
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And when all the children of Israel saw
how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their
faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised
the LORD, saying, For he is good;
for his mercy endureth for ever. 1 Chr. 16.34 · 2 Chr. 5.13 · Ezra 3.11 · Ps. 100.5 ; 106.1 ; 107.1 ; 118.1 ; 136.1 · Jer. 33.11
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Then the king and all the people
offered sacrifices before the LORD.
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And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of
twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand
sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of
God.
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And the priests waited on their offices:
the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the
LORD, because his mercy endureth for
ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded
trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
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Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of
the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the
fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon
had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat
offerings, and the fat.
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Also at the same time Solomon kept the
feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great
congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of
Egypt.
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And in the eighth day they made a solemn
assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and
the feast seven days.
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And on the three and twentieth day of the
seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and
merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his
people.
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The LORD's Covenant with Solomon |
1 Kgs. 9.1-9 |
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Thus Solomon finished the house of the
LORD, and the king's house: and all that came
into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously
effected.
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And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy
prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of
sacrifice.
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If I shut up heaven that there be no
rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among my people;
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if my people, which are called by my
name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn
from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine
ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this
place.
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For now have I chosen and sanctified this
house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine
heart shall be there perpetually.
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And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before
me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have
commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my
judgments;
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then will I stablish the throne of thy
kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father,
saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in
Israel. 1 Kgs. 2.4
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But if ye turn away, and forsake my
statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall
go and serve other gods, and worship them;
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then will I pluck them up by the roots
out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have
sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make
it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
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And this house, which is high, shall be
an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall
say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this
land, and unto this house?
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And it shall be answered, Because they
forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other
gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he
brought all this evil upon them.
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