2 Chronicles 7: Solomon’s Temple Dedication – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | God’s Glory, Solomon’s Prayer, and the Promise of Blessing

Experience the grandeur and power of 2 Chronicles 7 with this clear and engaging audio recording. Follow the story of Solomon’s Temple Dedication, the miraculous manifestation of God’s glory, Solomon’s prayer of thanksgiving and supplication, and the promise of blessings for Israel if they remain faithful. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, immerse yourself in this powerful chapter and let the Scriptures come alive.

2 CHRONICLES 7 (NIV)

1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the
burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the
temple.

2 The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory
of the Lord filled it.

3 When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and
the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their
faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying,
“He is good;
his love endures forever.”

4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord.

5 And
King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a
hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people
dedicated the temple of God.

6 The priests took their positions, as did the
Levites with the Lord’s musical instruments, which King David had made for
praising the Lord and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love
endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and
all the Israelites were standing.

7 Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple
of the Lord, and there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the
fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the
burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat portions.

8 So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel
with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.

9 On
the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication
of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.

10 On the
twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes,
joyful and glad in heart for the good things the Lord had done for David and
Solomon and for his people Israel.

11 When Solomon had finished the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and
had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the
Lord and in his own palace,

12 the Lord appeared to him at night and said:
“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple
for sacrifices.

13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to
devour the land or send a plague among my people,

14 if my people, who are
called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn
from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their
sin and will heal their land.

15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears
attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

16 I have chosen and
consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my
heart will always be there.

17 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and
do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,

18 I will establish your
royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall
never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

19 “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you
and go off to serve other gods and worship them,

20 then I will uproot Israel
from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have
consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule
among all peoples.

21 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass
by will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land
and to this temple?’

22 People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the
Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have
embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all
this disaster on them.’”