rsv 2Chronicles:7:11-22 SEEK
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Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king '
s house ;
all that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished .
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Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him : "
I have heard your prayer ,
and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice .
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When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain ,
or command the locust to devour the land ,
or send pestilence among my people ,
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if my people who are called by my name humble themselves ,
and pray and seek my face ,
and turn from their wicked ways ,
then I will hear from heaven ,
and will forgive their sin and heal their land .
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Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place .
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For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there for ever ;
my eyes and my heart will be there for all time .
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And as for you ,
if you walk before me ,
as David your father walked ,
doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances ,
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then I will establish your royal throne ,
as I covenanted with David your father ,
saying , `
There shall not fail you a man to rule Israel .'
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But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you ,
and go and serve other gods and worship them ,
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then I will pluck you up from the land which I have given you ;
and this house ,
which I have consecrated for my name ,
I will cast out of my sight ,
and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples .
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And at this house ,
which is exalted ,
every one passing by will be astonished ,
and say , `
Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house ?"
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Then they will say , `
Because they forsook the LORD the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt ,
and laid hold on other gods ,
and worshiped them and served them ;
therefore he has brought all this evil upon them '"