2 Chronicles 7:22 (DRB)

Passage

And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all these evils are come upon them.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 7:20 I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations.

2 Chronicles 7:21 And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

2 Chronicles 7:22 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all these evils are come upon them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "answer", "forsook", "lord", "fathers", "brought", "land", and "egypt". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "answer", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The prior verse says "And this house shall be for a...", giving immediate footing for "shall" and "answer". In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

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