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The
Shekinah Glory |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:1 |
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Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire
came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and
the glory of the LORD filled the house. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:2 |
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The priests could not enter into the house of
the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD'S house. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:3 |
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All the sons of Israel, seeing the fire come
down and the glory of the LORD upon the house, bowed down on the pavement with
their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave praise to the LORD, saying,
"Truly He is good, truly His lovingkindness is everlasting." |
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Sacrifices
Offered |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:4 |
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Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice
before the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:5 |
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King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen
and 120,000 sheep. Thus the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:6 |
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The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites
also, with the instruments of music to the LORD, which King David had made for
giving praise to the LORD-"for His lovingkindness is everlasting"--whenever he
gave praise by their means, while the priests on the other side blew trumpets;
and all Israel was standing. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:7 |
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Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the court
that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offerings
and the fat of the peace offerings because the bronze altar which Solomon had
made was not able to contain the burnt offering, the grain offering and the fat. |
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The
Feast of Dedication |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:8 |
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So Solomon observed the feast at that time for
seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly who came from the entrance
of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:9 |
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On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly,
for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days and the feast seven days. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:10 |
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Then on the twenty-third day of the seventh
month he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and happy of heart because
of the goodness that the LORD had shown to David and to Solomon and to His people
Israel. |
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God's
Promise and Warning |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:11 |
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Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD
and the king's palace, and successfully completed all that he had planned on doing
in the house of the LORD and in his palace. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:12 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:13 |
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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, |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:14 |
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and 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, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:15 |
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Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive
to the prayer offered in this place. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:16 |
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For now I have chosen and consecrated this house
that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:17 |
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As for you, if you walk before Me as your father
David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will
keep My statutes and My ordinances, |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:18 |
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then I will establish your royal throne as I
covenanted with your father David, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to be ruler
in Israel.' |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:19 |
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"But if you turn away and forsake My statutes
and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and
worship them, |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:20 |
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then I will uproot you from My land which I
have given you, and this house which 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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:21 |
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As for this house, which was exalted, everyone
who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this
land and to this house?' |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:22 |
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And they will say, 'Because they forsook the
LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they
adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought
all this adversity on them.'" |
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