2Chronicles:7

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* And when Solomon had ended praying , the fire came down from the heavens and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices ; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house . * And the priests could not enter into the house of Jehovah , because the glory of Jehovah filled Jehovah 's house . * And all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down , and the glory of Jehovah upon the house , and bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement , and worshipped and thanked Jehovah : For he is good , for his loving-kindness [endureth ] for ever . * And the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Jehovah . * And king Solomon sacrificed 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 . * And the priests stood in their charges , and the Levites with Jehovah 's instruments of music , which David the king had made to praise Jehovah , for his loving-kindness [endureth ] for ever , when David praised by their means ; and the priests sounded the trumpets opposite to them , and all Israel stood . * And Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah ; for there he offered the burnt-offerings , and the fat of the peace-offerings , because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offerings and the oblations and the fat . * And at that time Solomon held the feast seven days , and all Israel with him , a very great congregation , from the entrance of Hamath unto the torrent of Egypt . * And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly ; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days , and the feast seven days . * And on 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 Jehovah had done to David and to Solomon , and to Israel his people . * And Solomon completed the house of Jehovah , and the king 's house ; and all that came into Solomon 's heart to make in the house of Jehovah , and in his own house , he did prosperously . * Then Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night , and said to him : I have heard thy prayer , and I have chosen for myself this place for a house of sacrifice . * If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain , or if I command the locust to devour the land , or if I send pestilence among my people ; * and my people , who are called by my name , humble themselves , and pray , and seek my face , and turn from their wicked ways ; then will I hear from the heavens , and forgive their sin , and heal their land . * Now mine eyes shall be open , and mine ears attentive to the prayer [made ] in this place ; * for I have now chosen and hallowed this house , that my name may be there for ever ; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually . * And [as for ] thee , if thou wilt walk before me , as David thy father walked , to do according to all that I have commanded thee , and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances ; * then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom , according as I have covenanted with David thy father , saying , There shall not fail thee a man to rule over Israel . * But if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you , and go and serve other gods and worship them ; * then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them ; and this house , which I have hallowed to my name , will I cast out of my sight , and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples . * And this house , which is high , shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it ; so that he shall say , Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house ? * And they shall say , Because they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers , who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt , and have attached themselves to other gods , and have worshipped them and served them ; therefore he has brought upon them all this evil .

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