Context 19But 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, 20then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house? 22And they will say, Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionBut if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Douay-Rheims Bible But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them, Darby Bible Translation But if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them; English Revised Version But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them: Webster's Bible Translation But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; World English Bible But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Young's Literal Translation and if ye turn back -- ye -- and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them -- then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them, Library November the Twenty-Fifth after the Prayer the Fire!"When Solomon had made an end of praying the fire came down from heaven." --2 CHRONICLES vii. 1-11. And the fire is the symbol of the Holy God. Pure flame is our imperfect mode of expressing the Incorruptible. This burning flame is heat and light in one. And when Solomon had prayed, the holy Flame was in their midst. But not only is the flame the symbol of the Holy; it also typifies the power which can make me holy. We have no cleansing minister to compare with fire. Where water fails fire succeeds. … John Henry Jowett—My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year November the Twenty-Sixth Unconsecrated Souls Elijah the Tishbite Hezekiah The Temple and Its Dedication Chronicles Links 2 Chronicles 7:19 NIV • 2 Chronicles 7:19 NLT • 2 Chronicles 7:19 ESV • 2 Chronicles 7:19 NASB • 2 Chronicles 7:19 KJV • 2 Chronicles 7:19 Bible Apps • 2 Chronicles 7:19 Parallel • Bible Hub |