2 Chronicles 7:1-10

Fire from Heaven

1 aAs soon as Solomon finished his prayer, bfire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, cand the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 2And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord’s house. 3When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “For he is good, dfor his steadfast love endures forever.”

The Dedication of the Temple

4 eThen the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord. 5King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. 6The priests stood at their posts; fthe Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lordgfor his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry;
Hebrew  by their hand
iopposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.

7 jAnd Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.

8At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from kLebo-hamath to the lBrook of Egypt. 9And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days. 10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

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