2 Chronicles 7:11-22
New American Standard Bible
God’s Promise and Warning
11 (A)So Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king’s palace, and successfully completed everything that [a]he had planned on doing in the house of the Lord and in his palace.
12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and (B)have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 (C)If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, 14 (D)and My people [b]who are called by My name 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 (E)Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the [c]prayer offered in this place. 16 For (F)now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there [d]always. 17 As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, to do according to everything that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My ordinances, 18 then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘[e](G)You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’
19 “(H)But if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 (I)then I will uproot [f]you from My land which I have given [g]you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight; and I will make it (J)a proverb and an object of scorn among all peoples. 21 As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘(K)Why has the Lord done these things to this land and to this house?’ 22 And they will say, ‘Because (L)they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods, and worshiped and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.’”
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- 2 Chronicles 7:11 Lit came upon the heart of Solomon to do
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 Lit over whom My name is called
- 2 Chronicles 7:15 Lit prayer of this place
- 2 Chronicles 7:16 Lit all the days
- 2 Chronicles 7:18 Lit There shall not be cut off to you a man
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 As in ancient versions; MT them
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 As in some ancient versions; MT them
2 Chronicles 7:11-22
Holman Christian Standard Bible
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.(A)
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.(B) 13 If I close 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,(C) 14 and My people who are called by 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.(D) 15 My eyes will now be open and My ears attentive to prayer from this place.(E) 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.(F)
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.(G)
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 worship them,(H) 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;(I) I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.(J) 21 As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say:(K) 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 worshiped and served them. Because of this, He brought all this ruin on them.
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