2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Evangelical Heritage Version

I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house for sacrifice. ¹³ When I close up the sky and there is no rain, or I command locusts to eat up the land, or I send a plague on my people, ¹⁴ and my people, who are called by my Name, humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sins and heal their land.

¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer from this place. ¹⁶ I have chosen and consecrated this house for my Name to be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there every day. ¹⁷ And you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, and if you do everything I have commanded you and keep my statutes and ordinances, ¹⁸ I will establish the throne of your kingdom as I affirmed in my covenant with your father David: “You will never fail to have a man ruling over Israel.”

¹⁹ But if your people turn away and forsake my statutes and my commands which I have given them, and they go to serve and worship other gods, ²⁰ I will uproot them from my soil I have given to them. This house, which I have consecrated to my Name, I will toss away, out of my sight. I will make it proverbial as an object of ridicule among all the peoples.

²¹ Though this house is now exalted, everyone who passes by it will be appalled and say, “Why has the Lord done this to this land and this house?”

²² The answer will be: “Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods, worshipped them, and served them. That is why he has brought all this disaster on them.”