2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Appears to Solomon

^11 (A)Thus Solomon completed the house of Yahweh and the king’s house; and all that had come into Solomon’s heart to do in the house of Yahweh and in his house, he did successfully.

¹² Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and ^(B)have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. ^13 (C)If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, ^14 (D)and My people ^[a]who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then I will listen from heaven, I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land. ^15 (E)Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the ^[b]prayer offered in this place. ¹⁶ So ^(F)now I have chosen and set this house apart as holy that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. ¹⁷ As for you, if you will 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 judgments, ¹⁸ then I will establish your royal throne as I cut a covenant with your father David, saying, ‘^[c](G)You shall not have a man cut off as ruler in Israel.’

¹⁹ “^(H)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, ^20 (I)then I will uproot you from My land which I have given ^[d]you, and this house which I have set apart as holy for My name I will cast out of My presence and I will make it ^(J)a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ²¹ As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will feel desolate and say, ‘^(K)Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?’ ²² And they will say, ‘Because ^(L)they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt and took hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.’”