2 Chronicles 7 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Shekinah Glory

(1Ki 8:62–66 )

2Ch 7:1Now when Shlomo had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

2Ch 7:2

2Ch 7:2The Kohanim could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house.

2Ch 7:3

2Ch 7:3All the children of Yisra'el looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his lovingkindness endures for ever.

Sacrifices Offered

2Ch 7:4

2Ch 7:4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

2Ch 7:5

2Ch 7:5King Shlomo offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

2Ch 7:6

2Ch 7:6The Kohanim stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to the LORD, (for his lovingkindness endures for ever,) when David praised by their ministry: and the Kohanim sounded trumpets before them; and all Yisra'el stood.

2Ch 7:7

2Ch 7:7Moreover Shlomo made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Shlomo had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.

The Feast of Dedication

2Ch 7:8

2Ch 7:8So Shlomo held the feast at that time seven days, and all Yisra'el with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamat to the brook of Mitzrayim.

2Ch 7:9

2Ch 7:9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

2Ch 7:10

2Ch 7:10On the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown to David, and to Shlomo, and to Yisra'el his people.

God's Promise and Warning

2Ch 7:11

2Ch 7:11Thus Shlomo finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Shlomo's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

(1Ki 9:1–9 )

2Ch 7:12

2Ch 7:12The LORD appeared to Shlomo by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

2Ch 7:13

2Ch 7:13If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the arbeh to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

2Ch 7:14

2Ch 7:14if my people, who 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.

2Ch 7:15

2Ch 7:15Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

2Ch 7:16

2Ch 7:16For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

2Ch 7:17

2Ch 7:17As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

2Ch 7:18

2Ch 7:18then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Yisra'el.

2Ch 7:19

2Ch 7:19But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my mitzvot which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

2Ch 7:20

2Ch 7:20then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

2Ch 7:21

2Ch 7:21This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

2Ch 7:22

2Ch 7:22They shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.

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