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2 Chronicles 7:11-13
New English Translation

The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning

11 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and the royal palace and accomplished all his plans for the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,[a] 12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered[b] your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.[c] 13 When[d] I close up the sky[e] so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation,[f] or send a plague among my people,

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  1. 2 Chronicles 7:11 tn Heb “and all that entered the heart of Solomon to do in the house of the Lord and in his house he successfully accomplished.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 7:12 tn Heb “I have heard.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 7:12 tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the Lord designated the temple as the place for making sacrifices, and this has been clarified in the translation.
  4. 2 Chronicles 7:13 tn Or “if.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 7:13 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
  6. 2 Chronicles 7:13 tn Heb “the land,” which stands here by metonymy for the vegetation growing in it.
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