2 Chronicles 7:11 (DRB)

Passage

And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all that he had designed in his heart to do, in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, and he prospered.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 7:9 And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days.

2 Chronicles 7:10 So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent away the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his people.

2 Chronicles 7:11 And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all that he had designed in his heart to do, in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, and he prospered.

2 Chronicles 7:12 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.

2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders, and command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people:

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "solomon", "finished", "house", "lord", "king's", "designed", and "heart". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "solomon" and "finished", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "So on the three and twentieth day..." into verse 12's "And the Lord appeared to him by...", so "solomon" and "finished" belong inside that flow. In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "solomon" and "finished" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.