Verse 14
2 Chronicles 7:14
Free Bible Version
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for I have chosen and consecrated this Temple so that I may be honored there forever. I will always watch over it and take care of it for it really matters to me.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/יִכָּנְע֨וּ עַמִּ֜/י אֲשֶׁ֧ר נִֽקְרָא שְׁמִ֣/י עֲלֵי/הֶ֗ם וְ/יִֽתְפַּֽלְלוּ֙ וִֽ/יבַקְשׁ֣וּ פָנַ֔/י וְ/יָשֻׁ֖בוּ מִ/דַּרְכֵי/הֶ֣ם הָ/רָעִ֑ים וַ/אֲנִי֙ אֶשְׁמַ֣ע מִן הַ/שָּׁמַ֔יִם וְ/אֶסְלַח֙ לְ/חַטָּאתָ֔/ם וְ/אֶרְפָּ֖א אֶת אַרְצָֽ/ם
English Translation
And when 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 forgive their sin and heal their land.
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Chapter 7 Context
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When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and burned up the burnt offering and the s...
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When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord in the Temple, they knelt...
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3
King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. In this way the king and all th...
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The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites too, with the musical instruments that King David...
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5
After that Solomon dedicated the middle of the courtyard in front of the Temple of the Lord. There h...
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Then over the next seven days Solomon observed the feast with all of Israel, a huge gathering that c...
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On the eighth day they held a final assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days,...
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On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people home. They were still celebrat...
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9
After Solomon had finished the Temple of the Lord and the royal palace, having successfully accompli...
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the Lord appeared to him at night and told him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place...
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11
If I were to close shut the sky so there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or se...
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and if my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and return to me, and turn awa...
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Now my eyes will be open, and my ears will pay attention to the prayers offered in this place,
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for I have chosen and consecrated this Temple so that I may be honored there forever. I will always...
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As for you, if you follow my ways as your father David did, doing everything I've told you to do, an...
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then I will make sure your reign is secure. I made this agreement with your father David, telling hi...
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But if you turn away and ignore the laws and the commandments I have given you, and if you go and se...
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then I will pull you up from the land I gave you. I will banish from my presence this Temple I have...
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This Temple that now is so respected will become so spoiled that passers-by will say, ‘Why has the L...
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The answer will come, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God (Elohim) of their fathers, who broug...
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