“I have heard^(D) the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name^(E) there forever. My eyes^(F) and my heart will always be there.

⁴ “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart^(G) and uprightness, as David^(H) your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,^{(I) 5} I will establish^(J) your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail^(K) to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

⁶ “But if you^[a] or your descendants turn away^(L) from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you^[b] and go off to serve other gods^(M) and worship them, ⁷ then I will cut off Israel from the land^(N) I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.^(O) Israel will then become a byword^(P) and an object of ridicule^(Q) among all peoples. ⁸ This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[c] who pass by will be appalled^(R) and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’^{(S) 9} People will answer,^(T) ‘Because they have forsaken^(U) the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the Lord brought all this disaster^(V) on them.’”