The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 6:40 (ESV)

Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

 

[Mel85]

2 Chronicles 6:41 New International Version (NIV)
41 “Now arise, Lord God, and come to your resting place,
you and the ark of your might.
May your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation,
may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness.

 

[Mel85]

2 Chronicles 6:42 King James Version (KJV)
42 O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 7:1 (ERV)
Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:2 (ESV)

And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord's house.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:3 (ESV)

When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.”

 

[Shamah]

2 Chronicles 7:4, "And the sovereign and all the people sacrificed sacrifices before יהוה."

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:5 (ESV)

King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:6 (ESV)

The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord—for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.

 

[Shamah]

2 Chronicles 7:7, "And Shelomoh set apart the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the House of יהוה, for there he made ascending offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Shelomoh had made was not able to contain the ascending offerings and the grain offerings and the fat."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 7:8 (ERV)
So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:9 (NASB)

On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days and the feast seven days.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:10 (NASB)

Then on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness that the Lord had shown to David and to Solomon and to His people Israel.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 7:11 (BSB)
When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:12 (NIV)

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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:13 (NIV)

“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,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 7:14 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
if My people, upon whom My name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 7:15 (BSB)
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 7:16 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 7:17 (ESV)

And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,