26 And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord[a] (A)answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:26 Hebrew he

24 And (A)fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, (B)they shouted and (C)fell on their faces.

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21 Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. (A)And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

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(A)The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
    but (B)the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

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38 (A)Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

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(A)Call to me and I will answer you, (B)and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

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24 (A)Before they call I will answer;
    (B)while they are yet speaking I will hear.

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Exalt the Lord our God,
    and worship at his (A)holy mountain;
    for the Lord our God is holy!

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15 When he (A)calls to me, I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble;
    I will rescue him and (B)honor him.

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15 O Lord, open my lips,
    and my mouth will declare your praise.

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Fire from Heaven

(A)As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, (B)fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, (C)and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

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Solomon Builds the Temple

(A)Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem (B)on Mount Moriah, where the Lord[a] had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, (C)on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:1 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks the Lord

24 And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the Lord, and the God who (A)answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”

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And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.” So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. And (A)Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.

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20 And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, (A)and they fell on their faces to the ground.

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And (A)Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve (B)pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.

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24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. (A)In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and (B)bless you. 25 (C)If you make me an altar of stone, (D)you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.

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