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2 Chronicles 7:11-21
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After King Solomon had finished the Temple and the palace, successfully completing all his plans for them,
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the Lord appeared to him at night. He said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and I accept this Temple as the place where sacrifices are to be offered to me.
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Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people,
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if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.
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I will watch over this Temple and be ready to hear all the prayers that are offered here,
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because I have chosen it and consecrated it as the place where I will be worshiped forever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time.
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If you serve me faithfully as your father David did, obeying my laws and doing everything I have commanded you,
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I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants. 1
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But if you and your people ever disobey the laws and commands I have given you and worship other gods,
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then I will remove you from the land that I gave you, and I will abandon this Temple that I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshiped. People everywhere will ridicule it and treat it with contempt.
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"The Temple is now greatly honored, but then everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will ask, "Why did the Lord do this to this land and this Temple?'
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2 Chronicles 7:11-21 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 7
In this chapter is an account of the Lord's acceptance of the sacrifices offered at the dedication of the temple by fire, to the great surprise and encouragement of the people, 2Ch 7:1-7, and of the feast kept on that account, and the feast of tabernacles, 2Ch 7:8-12, and of the Lord's appearance to Solomon, giving an answer to his prayer, 2Ch 7:13-22.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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1 Kings 2.4 .
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.