THEOSIS2 Chronicles 7:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: I have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
וַיֵּרָ֧א יְהוָ֛ה אֶל־שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה בַּלָּ֑יְלָה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ אֶת־תְּפִלָּתֶ֔ךָ וּבָחַ֜רְתִּי בַּמָּק֥וֹם הַזֶּ֛ה לִ֖י לְבֵ֥ית זָֽבַח׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Chr 1:7And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.
- Gen 17:1And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.
- 2 Chr 7:16For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there perpetually.
- Deut 12:11In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.
- 1 John 5:14And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.
- 1 John 5:15And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.
- Ps 66 (65):19
- Ps 132 (131):13