¹²Then the Lord ^qappeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, ^rand have chosen this ^splace for Myself as a house of sacrifice. ¹³^tWhen I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, ¹⁴if My people who are ^ucalled by My name will ^vhumble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, ^wthen I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. ¹⁵Now ^xMy eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. ¹⁶For now ^yI have chosen and ⁴sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and ⁵My eyes and ⁶My heart will be there perpetually. ¹⁷^zAs for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, ¹⁸then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ^a‘You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.’

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2 Chronicles 7:14: if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Footnotes

4set apart
5My attention
6My concern

Cross references

q 1 Kin. 3:5; 11:9
r Deut. 12:5, 11
s 2 Chr. 6:20
t Deut. 28:23, 24; 1 Kin. 17:1; 2 Chr. 6:26–28
u Deut. 28:10; [Is. 43:7]
v 2 Chr. 12:6, 7; [James 4:10]
w 2 Chr. 6:27, 30
x 2 Chr. 6:20, 40
y 1 Kin. 9:3; 2 Chr. 6:6
z 1 Kin. 9:4
a 2 Sam. 7:12–16; 1 Kin. 2:4; 2 Chr. 6:16