2 Chronicles 7

¹ When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

² The priests could not enter the house of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house.

³ When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the house, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying,
"For he is good,
for his faithful love endures forever."

⁴ Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

⁵ King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

⁶ The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites with the instruments for the LORD's music that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD—"for his faithful love endures forever"—whenever David offered praise through them. The priests sounded trumpets opposite them, while all Israel was standing.

⁷ Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat portions.

⁸ At that time Solomon held the festival for seven days, and all Israel with him—a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.

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

¹⁰ On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown to David, to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

¹¹ Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace. Everything that came into Solomon's heart to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house, he successfully accomplished.

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 house of sacrifice.

¹³ 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 pestilence among my people,

¹⁴ if my people 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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.

¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer made in this place.

¹⁶ For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

¹⁷ As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keep my statutes and my judgments,

¹⁸ then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You shall not lack a man as ruler over Israel.'

¹⁹ But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commands that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

²⁰ then I will uproot them from my land that I have given them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

²¹ And this house, which was so exalted—everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will say, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?'

²² Then they will say, 'Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they took hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.'"