2 Chronicles 7 (NET)

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2 Chronicles 7:1¹When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the Lord ’s splendor filled the temple.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:38 1 Chr 21:26 Lev 9:23-24 1 Kgs 18:24 Ezek 43:5 Ezek 44:4 Gen 15:17 Mal 3:1-2 1 Kgs 8:54-61 2 Chr 5:13-14

2 Chronicles 7:2²The priests were unable to enter the Lord ’s temple because the Lord ’s splendor filled the Lord ’s temple.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 15:8 2 Chr 5:14 Exod 24:17 Isa 6:5

2 Chronicles 7:3³When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the Lord ’s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 5:13 2 Chr 20:21 Heb 7:24-25 Luke 1:50 Ezra 3:11 Isa 63:7 Exod 4:31 Ps 136:1-26 1 Chr 16:41 1 Chr 29:20

2 Chronicles 7:4⁴The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:62-63

2 Chronicles 7:6⁶The priests stood in their assigned spots, along with the Levites who had the musical instruments used for praising the Lord. (These were the ones King David made for giving thanks to the Lord and which were used by David when he offered praise, saying, “Certainly his loyal love endures.”) Opposite the Levites, the priests were blowing the trumpets, while all Israel stood there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 5:12 1 Chr 15:16-21 2 Chr 7:3 1 Chr 13:8 1 Chr 15:24 1 Chr 16:34 1 Chr 16:39-42 1 Chr 16:4-6 1 Chr 24:1-3 1 Chr 25:1-7

2 Chronicles 7:7⁷Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord ’s temple. He offered burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings there, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was too small to hold all these offerings.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:64-66 Heb 13:10-12 2 Chr 36:14 2 Chr 4:1 Num 16:37-38

2 Chronicles 7:8⁸At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival for seven days. This great assembly included people from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Stream of Egypt in the south.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 15:18 1 Kgs 8:65 1 Kgs 4:21-25 2 Chr 30:13 Amos 6:14 Deut 16:13-15 John 7:2 John 7:27-39 Josh 13:3-5 Lev 23:34-43

2 Chronicles 7:9⁹On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for seven more days.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 23:36 1 Kgs 8:65 2 Chr 30:23 Deut 16:8 Joel 1:14 Neh 8:18

2 Chronicles 7:10¹⁰On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people home. They left happy and contented because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:66 Ps 100:2 2 Chr 29:36 2 Chr 30:26 2 Chr 6:41 Acts 16:34 Acts 2:46 Deut 12:12 Deut 12:18 Deut 12:7

2 Chronicles 7:11¹¹After Solomon finished building the Lord ’s temple and the royal palace and accomplished all his plans for the Lord ’s temple and his royal palace,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:1-9 2 Chr 2:1 Eccl 2:10-11 Eccl 2:4

2 Chronicles 7:12¹²the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 17:1 1 Kgs 9:2 2 Chr 1:7 2 Chr 7:16 1 John 5:14-15 2 Kgs 20:5 Acts 10:31 Deut 12:11 Luke 1:13 2 Kgs 2:6

2 Chronicles 7:13¹³When I close up the sky so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, or send a plague among my people,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 6:26-28 Deut 11:17 Rev 11:6 Rev 3:7 2 Sam 24:13-15 Exod 10:4-6 Ezek 14:19-21 Job 12:14 Joel 2:25 Job 11:10

2 Chronicles 7:14¹⁴if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 3:40-41 Isa 55:6-7 Jas 4:9-10 Prov 28:13 2 Chr 6:37-39 Deut 4:29-30 Jer 33:6 2 Chr 33:12-13 Ezek 33:11 2 Chr 6:27

2 Chronicles 7:15¹⁵Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:12 2 Chr 6:40 2 Chr 6:20 Neh 1:6 Deut 11:12 Ps 65:2 Ps 130:2

2 Chronicles 7:16¹⁶Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 7:15 2 Chr 7:12 2 Chr 6:5-6 1 Kgs 9:3 2 Chr 6:20 Col 2:9 John 2:19-21 2 Chr 33:4-7 Ps 132:14 Zech 3:2

2 Chronicles 7:17¹⁷You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:38 Deut 4:40 Ezek 36:27 Zech 3:7 1 Chr 28:9 1 Kgs 2:3 1 Kgs 3:14 1 Kgs 8:25 1 Kgs 9:4-9 Deut 28:1-14

2 Chronicles 7:18¹⁸Then I will establish your dynasty, just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 6:16 2 Sam 7:13-16 Jer 33:20-21 1 Kgs 9:5 Jer 33:25-26 Ps 132:11-12 Ps 89:28-40

2 Chronicles 7:19¹⁹“But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:15 Lev 26:14 Lev 26:33-46 1 Chr 28:9 1 Kgs 11:4-8 1 Kgs 9:6-7 1 Sam 12:25 Deut 28:36-68 Deut 4:23-27 Josh 23:15-16

2 Chronicles 7:20²⁰then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:20 Deut 28:37 1 Kgs 14:15 1 Kgs 9:7 Deut 29:28 Jer 24:9 Jer 45:4 Jer 31:28 Lam 2:15-16 Ps 44:14

2 Chronicles 7:21²¹As for this temple, which was once majestic, everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 22:8-9 Jer 16:10-12 Jer 19:8 1 Kgs 9:8-9 2 Chr 29:8 Deut 29:24-28 Jer 13:22 Jer 22:28 Jer 49:17 Jer 5:19

2 Chronicles 7:22²²Others will then answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 9:12 Lam 4:13-15 2 Chr 36:17 Ezek 14:23 Ezek 36:17-20 Jer 1:16 Judg 2:12-13 Lam 2:16-17