2 Chronicles 7:21

And as for this lofty house, everyone that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

In Context

20then will I remove you from the land which I gave them; and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will remove out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

22And men shall say, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they attached themselves to other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: and therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:24and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger?

2 Chronicles 29:8And the Lord was very angry with Judah and Jerusalem, and made them an astonishment, and a desolation, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

Jeremiah 13:22And if thou shouldest say in thy heart, Wherefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine iniquity have thy skirts been discovered, that thy heels might be exposed.

Jeremiah 19:8And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; everyone that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

Jeremiah 22:8And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?

Jeremiah 49:17And all the men, and all the strangers who have set their face toward the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine: and there shall not one of them escape from the evils which I bring upon them.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 7:13-22

God's Promises to Solomon. ( b. c. 1004.) 12 And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin,… Read the whole commentary →

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