# 2 Chronicles 7

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-chronicles/7

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and Yahweh's glory filled the house.
2. The priests could not enter Yahweh's house because Yahweh's glory had filled the house.
3. All the children of Israel saw the fire descend and the glory of Yahweh upon the house, so they bowed their faces to the ground on the pavement, prostrated themselves, and praised Yahweh, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
4. Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.
5. King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep, and the king and all the people dedicated God's house.
6. The priests stood according to their divisions, the Levites with musical instruments of Yahweh that David the king had made to praise Yahweh—for his steadfast love endures forever—as David praised by their hand; the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
7. Solomon consecrated the middle of the court before the house of Yahweh, for he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings there, since the bronze altar that Solomon had made could not contain the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fats.
8. Solomon celebrated the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel was with him—an exceedingly great assembly from Hamath's entrance to Egypt's brook.
9. On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they performed the dedication of the altar for seven days and the feast for seven days.
10. On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, joyful and good-hearted for the goodness that Yahweh had done for David and Solomon and Israel his people.
11. Solomon completed the house of Yahweh and the king's house, and everything that came into his heart to do in the house of Yahweh and in his own house he brought to a successful end.
12. Yahweh 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."
13. If I close the heavens so there is no rain, or if I charge the locust to consume the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14. If my people who bear my name humble themselves, pray, seek my presence, and turn from their evil paths, then I will hear from heaven, pardon their sin, and heal their land.
15. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer in this place.
16. Now I have chosen and consecrated this house for my name to be there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.
17. You, if you walk before me as your father David walked, and do all that I have commanded you, and keep my statutes and my judgments;
18. Then I will establish your kingdom's throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, "A man to rule in Israel will not be cut off from you."
19. But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have placed before you, and go serve other gods and bow down to them;
20. Then I will uproot them from my land, which I gave them, and this house, which I consecrated for my name, I will cast from before my face and make it a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.
21. This house, which is exalted, will appall every passerby, and they will say, "Why has Yahweh done so to this land and to this house?"
22. They will answer, “Because they forsook Yahweh, God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and held fast to other gods, bowed down to them, and served them; therefore he brought all this calamity upon them.”

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[2 Chronicles 6](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-chronicles/6.md)
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