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chapter 7
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when Solomon had made an end of his prayer, Are came down from heaven, and
consumed the holocausts and the victims: and the majesty of the Lord tilled the
house.
2 Neither could the priests enter into the temple of
the Lord, because the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.
3 Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire
coming down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with
their faces to the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the
Lord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.
4 And the king and all the people sacrificed victims
before the Lord.
5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two
thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand rams: and the king and all
the people dedicated the house of God.
6 And the priests stood in their offices: and the
Levites with the instruments of music of the Lord, which king David made to
praise the Lord: because his mercy endureth for ever, singing the hymns of
David by their ministry: and the priests sounded with trumpets before them, and
all Israel stood.
7 Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court
before the temple of the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and the fat
of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he had made, could not
hold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat:
8 And Solomon kept the solemnity at that time seven
days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of
Emath to the torrent of Egypt.
9 And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly,
because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated
the solemnity seven days.
10 So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh
month he sent away the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good
that the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his people.
11 And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the
king's house, and all that he had designed in his heart to do, in the house of
the Lord, and in his own house, and he prospered.
12 And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said : I
have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of
sacrifice.
13 If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I
give orders, and command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence
among my people:
14 And my people, upon whom my name is called, being
converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance
for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sine and will heal their land.
15 My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to
the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.
16 For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place,
that my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there
perpetually.
17 And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David
thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and keep
my justices and my judgments :
18 I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, as I
promised to David thy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man of thy
stock to be ruler in Israel.
19 But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and
my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange
gods, and adore them,
20 I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which
I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will
cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among
all nations.
21 And this house shall be for a proverb to all that
pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to
this land, and to this house?
22 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord
the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid
hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all these
evils are come upon them.
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