2 Chronicles 7 And when Solomon finished praying, then fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And when Solomon finished praying, then fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house. ² The priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house. ³ When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they knelt down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loyal love is everlasting. ⁴ Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. ⁵ And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. ⁶ The priests were standing at their posts. So were the Levites who had the LORD's musical instruments that King David made for praising the LORD. They were saying: "his mercy endures forever." This he used to offer praise. The priests were opposite the Levites blowing trumpets while all Israel was standing there. ⁷ Moreover Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the grain offerings, and the fat. ⁸ So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. ⁹ On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. ¹⁰ And on the twenty third day of the seventh month, he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart, for the goodness that the LORD had done to David, and to Solomon, and to His people Israel. ¹¹ Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house. ¹² Then the LORD 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 shut up the heavens, and there is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people; ¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place. ¹⁶ "I have chosen and declared this Temple holy so that my name may be placed there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. ¹⁷ »If you will be faithful to me as your father David was, do everything I command, and obey my laws and rules, ¹⁸ "I will establish your royal dynasty just as I said in a promise to your father David, when I said: 'You will never fail to have an heir ruling over Israel.'" ¹⁹ "But if you turn away and abandon my statutes and my commands that I have given you, and if you walk away to serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰ »I will uproot Israel from the land I gave them. I will reject this Temple that I declared holy for my name. I will make it an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world. ²¹ And as for this house, which was exalted, all who pass by it will be appalled and will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?' ²² "They will answer their own question: 'They abandoned the LORD the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt. They adopted other gods, worshiped, and served them. That is why he brought this disaster on them.'"