2 Chronicles 7
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t As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, u fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, v and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
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And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord's house.
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When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "For he is good, w for his steadfast love endures forever."
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x Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord.
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King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
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The priests stood at their posts; y the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord - w for his steadfast love endures forever - whenever David offered praises by their ministry; z opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
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a And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.
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At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from b Lebo-hamath to the c Brook of Egypt.
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And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.
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On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
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d Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished.
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Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer e and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
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f When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
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if my people who are called by my name g 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.
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h Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
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e For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
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And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
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then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, i 'You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.'
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j "But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
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k then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it l a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, m 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?'
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Then they will say, 'Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.'"
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Cross References
1 Kings 8:54
Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.
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Leviticus 9:24
And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
1 Chronicles 21:26
And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
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2 Chronicles 5:13
And it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord ), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever," the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud.
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2 Chronicles 5:13
And it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord ), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever," the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud.
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1 Kings 8:62
Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
1 Kings 8:63
Solomon offered as peace offerings to the Lord 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
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1 Chronicles 15:16
David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
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2 Chronicles 7:3
When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
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2 Chronicles 5:12
And all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters.
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2 Chronicles 7:7 - 10
And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.
1 Kings 8:64 - 66
The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.
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Numbers 34:8
From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.
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Numbers 34:5
And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.
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2 Chronicles 7:11 - 22
Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished.
1 Kings 9:1 - 9
As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
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2 Chronicles 6:26
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them.
2 Chronicles 6:28
If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is.
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2 Chronicles 12:7
When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
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2 Chronicles 6:40
Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
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2 Chronicles 7:12
Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
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1 Kings 8:25
Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.
2 Chronicles 6:16
Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.
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Leviticus 26:14
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
Deuteronomy 28:15
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
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Deuteronomy 29:28
And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.
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Deuteronomy 28:37
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
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Deuteronomy 29:24
All the nations will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?
Jeremiah 22:8 - 9
"'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?"
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