Verse 12
2 Chronicles 7:12
GOD'S WORD Translation
12
Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֵּרָ֧א יְהוָ֛ה אֶל שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה בַּ/לָּ֑יְלָה וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗/וֹ שָׁמַ֨עְתִּי֙ אֶת תְּפִלָּתֶ֔/ךָ וּ/בָחַ֜רְתִּי בַּ/מָּק֥וֹם הַ/זֶּ֛ה לִ֖/י לְ/בֵ֥ית זָֽבַח
English Translation
And the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice."
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering an...
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The priests could not enter into Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.
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3
All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house....
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4
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.
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5
King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand...
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6
The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahwe...
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7
Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before Yahweh’s house holy; for there he offe...
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8
So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembl...
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9
On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days...
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10
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and gla...
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11
Thus Solomon finished Yahweh’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that ca...
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12
Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen thi...
13
“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if...
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14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from t...
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15
Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
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16
For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and m...
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17
“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I...
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18
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father,...
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19
But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and s...
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then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which...
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21
This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has...
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They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of their fathers, who brought th...
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