2 Chronicles 7:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever and my eyes and my heart shall constantly be there.

¹⁷ “As for you, if you on your part live in my presence as your father David lived, doing everything that I have commanded you and observing my laws and my decrees, ¹⁸ then I will establish your royal throne, as I promised by a covenant with your father David when I said: ‘You shall never lack a male successor of yours to rule over Israel.’