2 Chronicles 7:11-16

If My People Pray

11 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. 12 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. 13 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, 14 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. 15 h Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. 16 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.

  1. Cross References
    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.
  2. Cross References
    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.
  3. Cross References
    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.
  4. Cross References
    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.
  5. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:40
    Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
  6. Cross References
    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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