2 Chronicles 7:15-22

15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

17 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,

18 I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

19 “But if you^[a] turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you^[b] and go off to serve other gods and worship them,

20 then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

21 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[c] who pass by will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

22 People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’ ”

2 Chronicles 7:15-22 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.

Cross References

• 1. S 1 Kings 8:29; S 2 Chronicles 6:40; Nehemiah 1:6
• 2. ver 12; S Deuteronomy 12:5; 2 Chronicles 33:7; 2 Chronicles 6:6
• 3. S 1 Kings 9:4
• 4. S Leviticus 19:37
• 5. Isaiah 9:7; Jeremiah 33:17,21
• 6. S 1 Chronicles 5:2; Isaiah 55:4; Micah 5:2; 2 Chronicles 6:16
• 7. S 2 Samuel 7:13; S 1 Chronicles 17:12; 2 Chronicles 13:5; 2 Chronicles 23:3
• 8. S Deuteronomy 28:15
• 9. Leviticus 26:14,33; S 1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 12:1; 2 Chronicles 24:18; Jeremiah 9:13; Jeremiah 11:8
• 10. S Deuteronomy 29:28
• 11. 1 Kings 14:15; Jeremiah 12:14; Jeremiah 16:13; Jeremiah 50:11
• 12. S Deuteronomy 28:37
• 13. Jeremiah 19:8
• 14. Deuteronomy 29:24
• 15. Jeremiah 16:11

Footnotes

• [a]. The Hebrew is plural.
• [b]. The Hebrew is plural.
• [c]. See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew "And though this temple is now so imposing, all"