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Today's Bible Reading :: 2 Chronicles 6 - 8 (ESV)

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2 Chronicles 6

Solomon Blesses the People

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:1 - Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:2 - But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
(1Ki 8:14–21 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:3 - Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:4 - And he said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:5 - ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:6 - but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:7 - Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:8 - But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:9 - Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:10 - Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:11 - And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel.”

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

(1Ki 8:22–53 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:12 - Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:13 - Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits[fn] long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:14 - and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:15 - who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:17 - Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18 - “But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:19 - Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:20 - that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:21 - And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:23 - then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:24 - “If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:25 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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[fn] them,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:27 - then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way[fn] in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:29 - whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:30 - then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:31 - that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:34 - “If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:35 - then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:36 - “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:37 - yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:38 - if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:39 - then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:41 - “And now arise, O LORD God, and go to your resting place,
you and the ark of your might.
Let your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation,
and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:42 - O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one!
Remember your steadfast love for David your servant.”
ESV Footnotes
A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew answer
Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 1 Kings 8:36); Hebrew toward the good way

2 Chronicles 7

Fire from Heaven

(1Ki 8:62–66 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:1 - As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:2 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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.”

The Dedication of the Temple

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:4 - Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:5 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD—for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry;[fn] opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:7 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:8 - At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:9 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:10 - 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[fn] that the LORD had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

If My People Pray

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:11 - 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.
(1Ki 9:1–9 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:14 - if my people who are called by my name 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:15 - Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:16 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:17 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18 - then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:19 - “But if you[fn] 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:20 - then I will pluck you[fn] 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 a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:21 - And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:22 - 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.’”
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew by their hand
Or good
The Hebrew for you is plural here
Hebrew them; twice in this verse

2 Chronicles 8

Solomon’s Accomplishments

(1Ki 9:10–28 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:1 - At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:3 - And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and took it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4 - He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store cities that he built in Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:7 - All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:8 - from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon drafted as forced labor, and so they are to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:9 - But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:10 - And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 - Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:12 - Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built before the vestibule,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:13 - as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:16 - Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from[fn] the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:17 - Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:18 - And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there 450 talents[fn] of gold and brought it to King Solomon.
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Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew to
A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
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