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2 Chronicles 7:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “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, "

2 Chronicles 7:17

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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.’

19 But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

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1 Kings 9:4

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"As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,"

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1 Kings 6:12

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"“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father."

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2 Chronicles 6:16

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"“Now therefore, LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’"

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Leviticus 26:3

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"“‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,"

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Zechariah 3:7

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"“The LORD of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by."

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Ezekiel 36:27

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"I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them."

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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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