Fire from Heaven
(Psalms 136:1–26)
When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 1Ki 18:381Ch 21:26Lev 9:23-241Ki 18:24Ezk 43:5Ezk 44:4Gen 15:17Mal 3:1-2 The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it. Rev 15:82Ch 5:14Exo 24:17Isa 6:5
When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: 2Ch 5:132Ch 20:21Heb 7:24-25Luk 1:50Ezr 3:11Isa 63:7Exo 4:31Psa 136:1-26
“For He is good;
His loving devotion endures forever.”
Sacrifices of Dedication
(1 Kings 8:62–66)
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. 1Ki 8:62-63 And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. Jhn 10:222Ch 30:24Ezk 45:171Ch 29:211Ki 8:62-632Ch 1:62Ch 15:112Ch 2:4
The priests stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the musical instruments of the LORD, which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD and with which David had offered praise, saying, “For His loving devotion endures forever.” Across from the Levites, the priests sounded trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing. 2Ch 5:121Ch 15:16-212Ch 7:31Ch 13:81Ch 15:241Ch 16:341Ch 16:39-421Ch 16:4-6
Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not contain all these offerings. 1Ki 8:64-66Heb 13:10-122Ch 36:142Ch 4:1Num 16:37-38
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast 1for seven days. Gen 15:181Ki 8:651Ki 4:21-252Ch 30:13Amo 6:14Deu 16:13-15Jhn 7:2Jhn 7:27-39 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more. Lev 23:361Ki 8:652Ch 30:23Deu 16:8Jol 1:14Neh 8:18
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel. 1Ki 8:66Psa 100:22Ch 29:362Ch 30:262Ch 6:41Act 16:34Act 2:46Deu 12:12
The LORD’s Response to Solomon
(1 Kings 9:1–9)
When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace, 1Ki 9:1-92Ch 2:1Ecc 2:10-11Ecc 2:4 the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: Gen 17:11Ki 9:22Ch 1:72Ch 7:161Jn 5:14-152Ki 20:5Act 10:31Deu 12:11
“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, 2Ch 6:26-28Deu 11:17Rev 11:6Rev 3:72Sa 24:13-15Exo 10:4-6Ezk 14:19-21Job 12:14 and 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, forgive their sin, and heal their land. Lam 3:40-41Isa 55:6-7Jas 4:9-10Pro 28:132Ch 6:37-39Deu 4:29-30Jer 33:62Ch 33:12-13
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 1Pe 3:122Ch 6:402Ch 6:20Neh 1:6Deu 11:12Psa 65:2Psa 130:2 For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time. 2Ch 7:152Ch 7:122Ch 6:5-61Ki 9:32Ch 6:20Col 2:9Jhn 2:19-212Ch 33:4-7
And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances, 1Ki 11:38Deu 4:40Ezk 36:27Zec 3:71Ch 28:91Ki 2:31Ki 3:141Ki 8:25 then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’ 2Ch 6:162Sa 7:13-16Jer 33:20-211Ki 9:5Jer 33:25-26Psa 132:11-12Psa 89:28-40
But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods, Deu 28:15Lev 26:14Lev 26:33-461Ch 28:91Ki 11:4-81Ki 9:6-71Sa 12:25Deu 28:36-68 then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. 2Ki 17:20Deu 28:371Ki 14:151Ki 9:7Deu 29:28Jer 24:9Jer 45:4Jer 31:28
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, 2 all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ Jer 22:8-9Jer 16:10-12Jer 19:81Ki 9:8-92Ch 29:8Deu 29:24-28Jer 13:22Jer 22:28 And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’” Dan 9:12Lam 4:13-152Ch 36:17Ezk 14:23Ezk 36:17-20Jdg 2:12-13Jer 1:16Lam 2:16-17