16 For (A)now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there [a]always. 17 As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, to do according to everything that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My ordinances, 18 then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘[b](B)You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 7:16 Lit all the days
  2. 2 Chronicles 7:18 Lit There shall not be cut off to you a man

16 I have chosen(A) and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

17 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully(B) as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees(C) and laws, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted(D) with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor(E) to rule over Israel.’(F)

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