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as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up heav-
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July 6 en and there is no rain, or command the
locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence
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among My people, if My people who are
called by My name will humble themselves,
2 Chronicles 7:1–8:18
and pray and seek My face, and turn from
When Solomon had finished praying, fire their wicked ways, then I will hear from heav-
7 came down from heaven and consumed en, and will forgive their sin and heal their
the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears
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glory of the LORD filled the temple. And the attentive to prayer made in this place. For
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priests could not enter the house of the LORD, now I have chosen and sanctified this house,
because the glory of the LORD had filled the that My name may be there forever; and My
LORD’s house. When all the children of Israel eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
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saw how the fire came down, and the glory of 17 As for you, if you walk before Me as your
the LORD on the temple, they bowed their faces father David walked, and do according to all
to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped that I have commanded you, and if you keep
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and praised the LORD, saying: My statutes and My judgments, then I will
establish the throne of your kingdom, as I
“For He is good,
For His mercy endures forever.” covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You
shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.’
Then the king and all the people offered
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sacrifices before the LORD. King Solomon
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offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand
bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand 7:17,18 if…then. If there was obedience on
sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the part of the nation, the kingdom would be
the house of God. And the priests attended to established and they would have “a man as
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their services; the Levites also with instru- ruler.” Their disobedience was legendary and
ments of the music of the LORD, which King so was the destruction of their kingdom and
David had made to praise the LORD, saying, their dispersion. When Israel is saved (Rom.
“For His mercy endures forever,” whenever 11:25–27;Zech.12:14),then their King Messiah
David offered praise by their ministry. The will set up this glorious kingdom (Rev. 20:1ff.).
priests sounded trumpets opposite them,
while all Israel stood.
Furthermore Solomon consecrated the “But if you turn away and forsake My
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middle of the court that was in front of the statutes and My commandments which I have
house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt set before you, and go and serve other gods,
offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, and worship them, then I will uproot them
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because the bronze altar which Solomon had from My land which I have given them; and
made was not able to receive the burnt offer- this house which I have sanctified for My
ings, the grain offerings, and the fat. name I will cast out of My sight, and will make
8 At that time Solomon kept the feast seven it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
days, and all Israel with him, a very great 21 “And as for this house, which is exalted,
assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the everyone who passes by it will be astonished
Brook of Egypt. And on the eighth day they and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this
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held a sacred assembly, for they observed the land and this house?’ Then they will answer,
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dedication of the altar seven days, and the ‘Because they forsook the LORD God of their
feast seven days. On the twenty-third day of fathers, who brought them out of the land of
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the seventh month he sent the people away to Egypt, and embraced other gods, and wor-
their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the shiped them and served them; therefore He
good that the LORD had done for David, for Sol- has brought all this calamity on them.’ ”
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omon, and for His people Israel. Thus Sol- It came to pass at the end of twenty years,
omon finished the house of the LORD and the 8 when Solomon had built the house of the
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king’s house; and Solomon successfully accom- LORD and his own house, that the cities which
plished all that came into his heart to make in Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon built
the house of the LORD and in his own house. them; and he settled the children of Israel
12 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by there. And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah
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night, and said to him: “I have heard your and seized it. He also built Tadmor in the
prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself wilderness, and all the storage cities which he
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