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2 Chronicles 7
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2 Chronicles 7
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The Dedication of the Temple(A)
7 When Solomon finished praying, fire(B) came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled(C) the temple.(D) 2 The priests could not enter(E) the temple of the Lord because the glory(F) of the Lord filled it. 3 When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying,
“He is good;
his love endures forever.”(G)
4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. 5 And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God. 6 The priests took their positions, as did the Levites(H) with the Lord’s musical instruments,(I) which King David had made for praising the Lord and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.
7 Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the Lord, and there he offered burnt offerings and the fat(J) of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat portions.
8 So Solomon observed the festival(K) at that time for seven days, and all Israel(L) with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath(M) to the Wadi of Egypt.(N) 9 On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated(O) the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival(P) 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(Q)
11 When Solomon had finished(R) 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(S) to him at night and said:
“I have heard your prayer and have chosen(T) this place for myself(U) as a temple for sacrifices.
13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,(V) or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name,(W) will humble(X) themselves and pray and seek my face(Y) and turn(Z) from their wicked ways, then I will hear(AA) from heaven, and I will forgive(AB) their sin and will heal(AC) their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.(AD) 16 I have chosen(AE) 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(AF) as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees(AG) and laws, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted(AH) with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor(AI) to rule over Israel.’(AJ)
19 “But if you[a] turn away(AK) and forsake(AL) the decrees and commands I have given you[b] and go off to serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot(AM) Israel from my land,(AN) 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(AO) among all peoples. 21 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All[c] who pass by will be appalled(AP) and say,(AQ) ‘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(AR)—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 7:19 The Hebrew is plural.
- 2 Chronicles 7:19 The Hebrew is plural.
- 2 Chronicles 7:21 See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now so imposing, all
II Sử Ký 7
Vietnamese Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
II Sử Ký 7
Vietnamese Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
Cung hiến đền thờ cho Chúa
7 Khi Sô-lô-môn cầu nguyện xong thì lửa từ trời loè xuống thiêu đốt các của lễ thiêu và các sinh tế. Sự vinh hiển của Thượng Đế đầy dẫy đền thờ. 2 Các thầy tế lễ không thể vào đền thờ CHÚA được vì vinh hiển CHÚA đầy dẫy trong đó. 3 Khi toàn dân Ít-ra-en thấy lửa loè ra từ trời cùng vinh hiển CHÚA ngự trên đền thờ thì họ liền sấp mặt xuống đất bái lạy Thượng Đế và thưa rằng,
“Ngài thật nhân từ;
tình yêu Ngài còn đến đời đời.” [a]
4 Rồi vua Sô-lô-môn cùng toàn dân dâng sinh tế cho CHÚA. 5 Vua Sô-lô-môn dâng 22.000 con bò và 120.000 con chiên. Vậy vua và toàn dân cung hiến đền thờ cho Thượng Đế. 6 Các thầy tế lễ sẵn sàng thi hành nhiệm vụ. Các người Lê-vi cũng đứng bên các nhạc cụ mà vua Đa-vít đã làm cùng với nhạc để ca ngợi CHÚA. Các thầy tế lễ và người Lê-vi đồng nói rằng, “Hãy ca tụng CHÚA vì tình yêu Ngài còn đời đời.” [b] Các thầy tế lễ đứng đối diện người Lê-vi, thổi kèn, còn toàn dân Ít-ra-en thì đứng.
7 Sô-lô-môn biệt riêng ra thánh phần giữa của sân trước đền thờ CHÚA. Tại đó ông dâng của lễ thiêu và mỡ của lễ thân hữu. Ông dâng các của lễ đó trong sân trước vì bàn thờ bằng đồng mà ông đã làm không đủ chỗ chứa các của lễ thiêu, của lễ chay, và mỡ.
8 Sô-lô-môn cùng toàn dân kỷ niệm lễ [c] trong bảy ngày. Có rất đông người đến từ nơi rất xa như Lê-bô Ha-mát và suối Ai-cập. 9 Trong bảy ngày họ kỷ niệm lễ cung hiến bàn thờ để thờ phụng Thượng Đế. Rồi họ kỷ niệm lễ trong bảy ngày. Đến ngày thứ tám họ có buổi họp chung. 10 Vào ngày thứ hai mươi ba tháng bảy thì Sô-lô-môn cho dân chúng về, mọi người đều hớn hở. Họ vui mừng vì CHÚA đã tỏ lòng nhân từ cùng Đa-vít, Sô-lô-môn, và dân Ít-ra-en của Ngài.
Chúa hiện ra cùng Sô-lô-môn
11 Sô-lô-môn hoàn tất đền thờ của CHÚA và cung điện của ông. Ông thành công trong mọi việc đã hoạch định cho đền thờ CHÚA và cung điện mình. 12 Sau đó CHÚA hiện ra cùng Sô-lô-môn trong ban đêm và bảo ông rằng, “Ta đã nghe lời cầu nguyện ngươi và ta đã chọn nơi nầy riêng cho ta để làm đền thờ dâng sinh tế. 13 Ta có thể ngăn trời mưa xuống hay sai cào cào tàn phá xứ. Ta cũng có thể sai bệnh tật đến trên dân ta. 14 Nhưng nếu dân ta là dân được gọi bằng danh ta ăn năn việc làm của họ, nếu họ khẩn nguyện và vâng lời ta, ngưng các hành vi gian ác của họ thì ta sẽ từ trời nghe họ. Ta sẽ tha tội cho họ và chữa lành cho xứ. 15 Mắt ta sẽ nhìn, tai ta sẽ mở để nghe lời cầu nguyện nơi nầy. 16 Ta đã chọn đền thờ nầy và thánh hoá nó. Đó là nơi ta sẽ được sùng bái đời đời. Thật vậy, ta sẽ luôn luôn trông chừng nó và yêu thích nó. 17 Nhưng ngươi phải phục vụ ta như Đa-vít, cha ngươi. Ngươi phải vâng theo mọi mệnh lệnh ta, giữ luật lệ và qui tắc của ta. 18 Nếu ngươi làm như thế, ta sẽ củng cố nước ngươi. Đây là giao ước ta đã lập với Đa-vít, cha ngươi, ‘Trong gia đình ngươi sẽ luôn luôn có người trị vì trên Ít-ra-en.’
19 Nhưng ngươi phải theo ta, vâng giữ các luật lệ và mệnh lệnh ta truyền cho ngươi. Ngươi không được phục vụ và thờ phụng các thần khác. 20 Nếu không ta sẽ kéo Ít-ra-en ra khỏi xứ ta, xứ mà ta ban cho họ, ta sẽ rời bỏ đền thờ nầy là thành ta đã biệt ra thánh. Các dân sẽ chế diễu và bêu xấu nó. 21 Đền thờ nầy hiện được tôn kính nhưng lúc đó người qua kẻ lại sẽ sửng sốt. Họ sẽ hỏi, ‘Tại sao CHÚA làm chuyện kinh khủng cho đất và đền thờ nầy?’ 22 Người ta sẽ trả lời, ‘Đó tại vì họ lìa bỏ CHÚA, Thượng Đế của tổ tiên mình, Đấng đã mang họ ra khỏi Ai-cập. Họ đi theo các thần khác và phục vụ các thần đó, bởi vậy cho nên Ngài giáng thảm hoạ nầy trên họ.’”
Footnotes
- II Sử Ký 7:3 Ngài thật nhân từ; … đến đời đời Xem Thi 118 và 136.
- II Sử Ký 7:6 Hãy ca tụng … còn đời đời Xem I Sử 16:41; Thi 118 và 136.
- II Sử Ký 7:8 lễ Đây rất có thể là Lễ Vượt Qua.
2 Chronicles 7
Christian Standard Bible
2 Chronicles 7
Christian Standard Bible
The Dedication Ceremonies
7 When Solomon finished praying,(A) fire descended from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices,(B) and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 2 The priests were not able to enter the Lord’s temple because the glory of the Lord filled the temple of the Lord. 3 All the Israelites were watching when the fire descended and the glory of the Lord came on the temple. They bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground. They worshiped and praised the Lord:
For he is good,
for his faithful love endures forever.(C)
4 The king and all the people were offering sacrifices in the Lord’s presence.(D) 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple. 6 The priests and the Levites were standing at their stations. The Levites had the musical instruments of the Lord, which King David had made to give thanks to the Lord—“for his faithful love endures forever”—when he offered praise with them.(E) Across from the Levites, the priests were blowing trumpets, and all the people were standing. 7 Since the bronze altar that Solomon had made(F) could not accommodate the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the fellowship offerings, Solomon first consecrated the middle of the courtyard(G) that was in front of the Lord’s temple and then offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings there.(H)
8 So Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly, from the entrance to Hamath[a] to the Brook of Egypt—observed the festival at that time for seven days. 9 On the eighth day[b] they held a solemn assembly,(I) for the dedication of the altar lasted seven days and the festival seven days. 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people home,[c] rejoicing and with happy hearts for the goodness the Lord had done for David, for Solomon, and for his people Israel.
11 So Solomon finished the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. Everything that had entered Solomon’s heart to do for the Lord’s temple and for his own palace succeeded.(J)
The Lord’s Response
12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:
I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple of sacrifice.(K) 13 If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people,(L) 14 and my people, who bear my name, humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.(M) 15 My eyes will now be open and my ears attentive to prayer from this place.(N) 16 And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.(O)
17 As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man ruling in Israel.(P)
19 However, if you turn away and abandon my statutes and my commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,(Q) 20 then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for my name I will banish from my presence;(R) I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.(S) 21 As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say,(T) “Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?” 22 Then they will say, “Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They clung to other gods and bowed in worship to them and served them. Because of this, he brought all this ruin on them.”
2 Chronicles 7
King James Version
2 Chronicles 7
King James Version
7 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.
2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house.
3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord.
5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the Lord, which David the king had made to praise the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the Lord had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
12 And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
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