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Texts -- 2 Chronicles 7:1-21 (NET)

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Solomon Dedicates the Temple
7:1 When Solomon finished praying , fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices , and the Lord’s splendor filled the temple . 7:2 The priests were unable to enter the Lord’s temple because the Lord’s splendor filled the Lord’s temple . 7:3 When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the Lord’s splendor over the temple , they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement . They worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord , saying, “Certainly he is good ; certainly his loyal love endures !” 7:4 The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the Lord . 7:5 King Solomon sacrificed 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep . Then the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple . 7:6 The priests stood in their assigned spots , along with the Levites who had the musical instruments used for praising the Lord . (These were the ones King David made for giving thanks to the Lord and which were used by David when he offered praise , saying, “Certainly his loyal love endures .”) Opposite the Levites, the priests were blowing the trumpets , while all Israel stood there. 7:7 Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple . He offered burnt sacrifices , grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings there , because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was too small to hold all these offerings . 7:8 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival for seven days . This great assembly included people from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south. 7:9 On the eighth day they held an assembly , for they had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for seven more days . 7:10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month , Solomon sent the people home . They left happy and contented because of the good the Lord had done for David , Solomon , and his people Israel .
The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning
7:11 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and the royal palace , and accomplished all his plans for the Lord’s temple and his royal palace , 7:12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made. 7:13 When I close up the sky so that it doesn’t rain , or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, or send a plague among my people , 7:14 if my people , who belong to me , humble themselves, pray , seek to please me , and repudiate their sinful practices , then I will respond from heaven , forgive their sin , and heal their land . 7:15 Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place . 7:16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there . 7:17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations . 7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty , just as I promised your father David , ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel .’ 7:19 “But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods , 7:20 then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence , and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations . 7:21 As for this temple , which was once majestic , everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say , ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple ?’

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  • 2Ch 7:1-10 -- Solomon Dedicates the Temple
  • 2Ch 7:11-22 -- The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning

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  • [2Ch 7:1] O Lord, Our God, Almighty King
  • [2Ch 7:5] Be With Us, Gracious Lord, Today

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  • God ordered that priests should announce His movement of the people by blowing two silver trumpets because the Israelites would not watch the cloud continuously. The blasts from the trumpets would reach the farthest tents in ...
  • The Book of Samuel covers the period of Israel's history bracketed by Samuel's conception and the end of David's reign. David turned the kingdom over to Solomon in 971 B.C.3David reigned for 40 and one-half years (2 Sam. 2:11...
  • Likewise the news of the loss of the ark is what distressed Phinehas' wife more than the news of the deaths of her husband, father-in-law, and brother-in-law (vv. 21-22)."With the surrender of the earthly throne of His glory,...
  • Chronicles covers a broader period of history than any other Old Testament book. It begins with Adam and ends with Anani who lived eight generations after King Jehoiachin (1 Chron. 3:24). If we allow 25 years for each generat...
  • The dominating theme in 1 Chronicles is the Davidic Covenant, the receiving of which was the most important event in David's life. God promised to give him an eternal kingdom, and He formalized that promise by making a covena...
  • Even though 1 and 2 Chronicles give one continuous story the emphasis in 2 Chronicles is different from that in 1 Chronicles. In 1 Chronicles the emphasis is the importance of the temple in national life. However in 2 Chronic...
  • (Continued from notes on 1 Chronicles)III. The reign of Solomon chs. 1-9A. Solomon's wisdom and prosperity ch. 1B. The building of the temple 2:1-5:11. Preparations for building the temple ch. 22. The temple proper 3:1-93. Th...
  • The cherubim (3:10-13) represented angelic beings (cf. Gen. 3:24). Probably they looked more like the sculptured combination human-animal-bird creatures that archaeologists have discovered in the ancient Assyrian and Babyloni...
  • In his prayer Solomon explained the significance of God's coming to indwell His temple. God had come to empower, to have fellowship, and to judge if necessary. God was present among His people, and He would hear their prayers...
  • This celebration consisted of the seven-day dedication of the bronze altar followed by the seven-day feast of Tabernacles. The very large number of sacrifices Solomon offered seems incredible, but there are records of other l...
  • God responded to Solomon's prayer with a special revelation. He promised to grant the petitions of the people, as Solomon had requested, if they manifested a true heart for Him (vv. 12-14). Verses 13 and 14 are a short summar...
  • This section of the text is similar to 1 Chronicles 18-21. Those chapters showed how God did keep His promises to David that the Chronicler recorded in 1 Chronicles 17:8-12. These chapters (8-9) show how God kept His promise ...
  • Manasseh was one of the few examples of an evil Judean king who turned out good. Nevertheless his wickedness made captivity inevitable for Judah (2 Kings 23:26; Jer. 15:4)."Manasseh's acts are . . . a calculated attempt to th...
  • As Hezekiah had done, Josiah led his people in observing the Passover, that greatest feast of Israel that commemorated her redemption from Egyptian slavery. Josiah's Passover was even greater than Hezekiah's that Hezekiah had...
  • These two verses determine the whole mood of Chronicles. Rather than ending with the failure of man the writer concluded by focusing our attention on the faithfulness of God (cf. Lam. 3:22-23). God was in control of the Persi...
  • The texts of the individual psalms do not usually indicate who wrote them.1However some of the titles of the individual psalms do contain information about the writers.2This is the only really reliable information we have as ...
  • As was true in the chapter 10-15 section, this one (16:1-22:16) also becomes more difficult to outline as it ends because there are fewer groupings of proverbs.19:7 The first part of this verse is hyperbole (overstatement to ...
  • 40:17-19 The passageway in the eastern gate complex led into a courtyard. This was the outer court that contained an inner court within it. Around the perimeter of this outer court were 30 rooms. It is not clear if they were ...
  • 43:1-2 Ezekiel's guide next led him to the east gate in the outer wall. This was the wall of the millennial temple that he had been seeing and continued to see, not the wall of the Solomonic temple. There the prophet saw the ...
  • 43:18 The Lord told Ezekiel what to do when the construction of the altar was complete.538The purpose of this altar was to receive the burnt offerings that people would bring to the Lord and to receive the blood of those anim...
  • There are a number of contrasts between the 144,000 and this great multitude. The number of the first group is not only smaller but definite whereas the number of the second group is larger and indefinite. People from the 12 ...
  • 9:1 Again John saw a "star"(cf. 6:13; 8:10), but this time the "star"was an intelligent being. If "fallen"(Gr. peptokota) has theological connotations, the "star"may refer to Satan (vv. 2, 11; cf. 1:20; Job. 38:7; Luke 10:18)...
  • 15:5 "After these things I looked"(Gr. meta tauta eidon) indicates a transition to a new vision and a new subject: the bowl judgments. These are in a category of their own. John saw the heavenly temple opened. This gave the s...
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