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then (A)I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I [a]promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not have a man cut off from the throne of Israel.’

(B)But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have given before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, (C)then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and (D)the house which I have set apart as holy for My name, I will [b]cast out of My presence. So (E)Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:5 Lit spoke
  2. 1 Kings 9:7 Lit send