2 Chronicles 7:8-18

8 So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.

9 On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.

10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the LORD had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel.

The LORD Appears to Solomon

11 When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace,

12 the LORD appeared to him at night and said: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

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.’

2 Chronicles 7:8-18 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. 2 Chronicles 30:26; Nehemiah 8:17
• 2. S 1 Chronicles 9:1
• 3. S Numbers 13:21
• 4. S Genesis 15:18
• 5. 2 Chronicles 30:23
• 6. S Leviticus 23:36
• 7. S 1 Chronicles 28:20
• 8. 2 Chronicles 1:7
• 9. Deuteronomy 12:11
• 10. S Deuteronomy 12:5
• 11. S Deuteronomy 11:17; 2 Chronicles 6:26-28; Amos 4:7
• 12. S Numbers 6:27
• 13. S Exodus 10:3; S Leviticus 26:41; S 2 Chronicles 6:37; James 4:10
• 14. S 1 Chronicles 16:11
• 15. S 2 Kings 17:13; Isaiah 55:7; Ezekiel 18:32; Zechariah 1:4
• 16. S 2 Chronicles 6:20
• 17. S 2 Chronicles 6:27
• 18. S Exodus 15:26; 2 Chronicles 30:20; Psalms 60:2; Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 57:18; Jeremiah 33:6; Malachi 4:2
• 19. S 1 Kings 8:29; S 2 Chronicles 6:40; Nehemiah 1:6
• 20. ver 12; S Deuteronomy 12:5; 2 Chronicles 33:7; 2 Chronicles 6:6
• 21. S 1 Kings 9:4
• 22. S Leviticus 19:37
• 23. Isaiah 9:7; Jeremiah 33:17,21
• 24. S 1 Chronicles 5:2; Isaiah 55:4; Micah 5:2; 2 Chronicles 6:16
• 25. S 2 Samuel 7:13; S 1 Chronicles 17:12; 2 Chronicles 13:5; 2 Chronicles 23:3