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Text -- 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 (NET)
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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 ?’
7:22 Others will then answer , ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors , who led them out of Egypt . They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served . That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Solomon |
Temple |
Temple, Solomon's |
God |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Blessing |
Prayer |
Locust |
Chastisement |
Nation |
PARABLE |
Rain |
Drought |
David |
Offerings |
Repentance |
Humiliation and Self-affliction |
Heaven |
TRINITY, 1 |
HEAL |
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NET Notes -> 2Ch 7:11; 2Ch 7:12; 2Ch 7:12; 2Ch 7:13; 2Ch 7:13; 2Ch 7:13; 2Ch 7:14; 2Ch 7:14; 2Ch 7:14; 2Ch 7:14; 2Ch 7:14; 2Ch 7:15; 2Ch 7:16; 2Ch 7:16; 2Ch 7:17; 2Ch 7:17; 2Ch 7:18; 2Ch 7:18; 2Ch 7:19; 2Ch 7:19; 2Ch 7:19; 2Ch 7:20; 2Ch 7:20; 2Ch 7:20; 2Ch 7:20; 2Ch 7:20; 2Ch 7:20; 2Ch 7:21; 2Ch 7:22; 2Ch 7:22; 2Ch 7:22
NET Notes: 2Ch 7:11 Heb “and all that entered the heart of Solomon to do in the house of the Lord and in his house he successfully accomplished.”
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NET Notes: 2Ch 7:12 Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the Lord designated the temple as the place for making sacrifices, and this has been clarified in th...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 7:14 Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 7:15 Heb “my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.” Note Solomon’s request in 6:40.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 7:17 Verse 17 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appea...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 7:20 Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 7:21 Heb “and this house which was high/elevated.” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgmen...
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