1 Kings 9:7-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁷ then I will cut off Israel from the face of the ground which I gave them. I will take my presence away from the house which I consecrated for my Name. Israel will become proverbial as an object of ridicule for all peoples.

⁸ Though this house is now exalted,^[a] all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss^[b] and say, “Why did the Lord do this to this land and to this house?”

⁹ They will reply, “Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshipped and served them. That is why the Lord brought all this evil on them.”