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2 Chronicles 7:22 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 22. 22And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
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Quick Meaning
Answers ruin through covenant abandonment rather than temple invulnerability.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 7:11–7:22
Answers ruin through covenant abandonment rather than temple invulnerability. Read 2 Chronicles 7:22 within 7:11–7:22. The complete unit records: God receives the house, offers hearing when the people humble themselves, pray, seek, and turn, reiterates conditional Davidic rule, and warns that forsaking God will make the exalted temple an astonishment.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The night response converts dedication into a long-term covenant test whose warning anticipates the book's final ruin. In this exact position, the line beginning “And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers,…” answers ruin through covenant abandonment rather than temple invulnerability.
Follow the Context
- God receives the house, offers hearing when the people humble themselves, pray, seek, and turn, reiterates conditional Davidic rule, and warns that forsaking God will make the exalted temple an astonishment.
- The night response converts dedication into a long-term covenant test whose warning anticipates the book's final ruin.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers,…”
In plain language: Answers ruin through covenant abandonment rather than temple invulnerability.
The line beginning “And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers,…” answers ruin through covenant abandonment rather than temple invulnerability.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The healing promise does not give modern nations a formula for political dominance, blame disaster victims, replace public action, or identify any country with ancient Israel.
What Remains True
Answers ruin through covenant abandonment rather than temple invulnerability. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse answers ruin through covenant abandonment rather than temple invulnerability, keep it inside 7:11–7:22, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 7:22 answers ruin through covenant abandonment rather than temple invulnerability. Use 7:11–7:22, paraphrase “And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers,…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 7:11–7:22 — God answers Solomon with promise and warningSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 7:22 remains within this thought-unit limit: The famous 7:14 address is to Solomon and the covenant people within this literary setting; later application must preserve that first horizon and the book's own complex retribution patterns.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 7:11–7:22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 7:11–7:22
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 7:11–7:22, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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