Passage Research
2 Chronicles 7 — Sermon Preparation
Fire comes down from heaven to consume the offerings, God's glory fills the temple, and God later appears to Solomon confirming the covenant with a warning. Below is a research summary for 2 Chronicles 7, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 22
- verses
- 395 / 158
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 2
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
2 Chronicles 7 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁלֹמֹה | Shᵉlômôh | H8010 | 9 | Shelomah |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 7 | people, tribe |
| זֶבַח | zebach | H2077 | 4 | slaughter, flesh |
| דָּוִד | Dâvid | H1732 | 5 | David |
| שָׁחָה | shâchâh | H7812 | 3 | depress, prostrate |
| קָדַשׁ | qâdash | H6942 | 3 | be, make |
| כָּבוֹד | kâbôwd | H3519 | 3 | weight, splendor |
How preachers through history handled this text
2 public-domain excerpts on 2 Chronicles 7, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In this chapter we have God's answer to Solomon's prayer. I. His public answer by fire from heaven, which consumed the sacrifices (ver. 1), with which the priests and people were much affected, ver. 2, 3. By that token of God's acceptance they were encouraged to continue the solemnities of the feast for fourteen days, and Solomon was encouraged to pursue all his designs for the honour of God, ver. 4-11. II. His private answer by word of mouth, in a dream or vision of the night, ver. 12-22. Most of these things we had before, 1 Kings viii. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 2 Chronicles 7:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— 2 Chr 7:22
- Brook of Egypt— 2 Chr 7:8
- Lebo-hamath— 2 Chr 7:8
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