If My People Pray

2 Chronicles 7

11 Thus p Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the LORD and in his own house. 12 Then the LORD q appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, r and have chosen this s place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 t "When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 "if My people who are u called by My name will v humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, w then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 "Now x My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. 16 "For now y I have chosen and 1 sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and 2 My eyes and 3 My heart will be there perpetually. 17 z "As 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, 18 "then 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.'

19 b "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, 20 c "then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have 4 sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a d byword among all peoples. 21 "And as for e this 5 house, which 6 is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be f astonished and say, g 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?' 22 "Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.' "

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:1
    And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he wanted to do.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 3:5
    At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask! What shall I give you?
    1 Kings 11:9
    So the LORD became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the LORD God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:5
    But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.
    Deuteronomy 12:11
    Then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.
  4. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:20
    That Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:23
    And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.
    Deuteronomy 28:24
    The LORD will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
    1 Kings 17:1
    And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, " As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.
    2 Chronicles 6:26 - 28
    When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:10
    Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.
    Isaiah 43:7
    Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.
  7. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:6
    So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The LORD is righteous.
    2 Chronicles 12:7
    Now when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
    James 4:10
    Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
  8. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:27
    Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
    2 Chronicles 6:30
    Then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men).
  9. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:20
    That Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.
    2 Chronicles 6:40
    Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.
  10. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:3
    And the LORD said to him: "I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built to put My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
    2 Chronicles 6:6
    'Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'
  11. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:4
    Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments.
  12. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:12 - 16
    When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
    1 Kings 2:4
    "that the LORD may fulfill His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,' He said, 'you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
    2 Chronicles 6:16
    "Therefore, LORD God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk in My law as you have walked before Me.'
  13. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:14
    But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments.
    Leviticus 26:33
    I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
    Deuteronomy 28:15
    But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
    Deuteronomy 28:36
    The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods - wood and stone.
  14. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:63 - 68
    And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.
    2 Kings 25:1 - 7
    Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 44:14
    You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
  16. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:9
    He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.
  17. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 29:8
    Therefore the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has given them up to trouble, to desolation, and to jeering, as you see with your eyes.
  18. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:24
    "All nations would say, 'Why has the LORD done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?'
    Deuteronomy 29:25
    Then people would say: 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
    Jeremiah 22:8
    "And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, 'Why has the LORD done so to this great city?'
    Jeremiah 22:9
    "Then they will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.'"
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