2 Chronicles 7:20

20 ¹then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it ²a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 7:20

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 7:12).

2 Chronicles 7:20 In-Context

18 then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.'

19 "But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

20 then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

21 "As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

22 "And they will say, 'Because they forsook the LORD , the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.' "

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 29:28; 1 Kings 14:15
• 2. Deuteronomy 28:37

Footnotes

• [a] Ancient versions and Heb read "them"