2 Chronicles 7:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ because I have chosen it and consecrated it as the place where I will be worshiped forever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time. ¹⁷ If you serve me faithfully as your father David did, obeying my laws and doing everything I have commanded you, ^18 (A)I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.