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2 Chronicles 7:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. "

2 Chronicles 7:16

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

15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.

16 For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

17 “As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,

18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

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1 Kings 9:3

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"The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually."

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1 Kings 8:29

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"that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place."

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Isaiah 56:5

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"I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off."

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2 Chronicles 6:20

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"that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place."

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2 Samuel 7:13

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"He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever."

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1 Samuel 2:35

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"I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever."

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2 Chronicles 7:1

"Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the LORD’s glory filled the house."

2 Chronicles 7:2

"The priests could not enter into the LORD’s house, because the LORD’s glory filled the LORD’s house."

2 Chronicles 7:3

"All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the LORD’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever!”"

2 Chronicles 7:4

"Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD."

2 Chronicles 7:5

"King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house."

2 Chronicles 7:6

"The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to the LORD, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood."

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