2 Chronicles 7
1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
2 The priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
3 All the Israelites saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD over the house. Then they bowed with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped and praised the LORD: “For he is good; his faithful love endures forever.”
4 The king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
5 King Solomon offered 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep as sacrifices. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
6 The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites, with the musical instruments of the LORD that King David had made, praised the LORD: “For his faithful love endures forever.” David praised through them. The priests played trumpets in front of them, and all Israel stood.
7 Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, because he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings there. For the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat.
8 At that time Solomon celebrated the festival for seven days, and all Israel with him—a very great assembly, from the entrance to Hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
9 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, because they had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for seven days.
10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people home to their tents. They were joyful and glad of heart because of the good the LORD had done for David, Solomon, and Israel his people.
11 Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s house. He succeeded in everything he had set his heart on doing in the house of the LORD and in his own house.
12 The LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
13 If I shut up the sky so there is no rain, if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send plague among my people,
14 and my people, who bear my name, humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer made in this place.
16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be here forever. My eyes and my heart will be here always.
17 As for you, if you walk before me as your father David did, doing everything I commanded you, and keep my decrees and my laws,
18 I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according to the covenant I made with your father David: ‘You will never fail to have a man ruling in Israel.’
19 But if you turn away and abandon my decrees and commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them,
20 I will uproot them from my land, which I gave them. This house, which I consecrated to my name, I will cast away from my presence and make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
21 And this house, which was so exalted, will become a cause of astonishment to everyone who passes by it, and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and this house?’
22 They will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and clung to other gods, bowing down to them and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”
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