1 Kings 9:4–9

⁴As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances, ^q5I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel. ^r

⁶If you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep My commands—My statutes that I have set before you—and if you go and serve other gods and worship them, ^s7I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, ^tand I will reject ^uthe temple I have sanctified for My name. ^vIsrael will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. ^w8Though this temple is now exalted, ^xeveryone who passes by will be appalled and will mock. ^yThey will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple? ^z9Then they will say: Because they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They clung to other gods and worshiped and served them. Because of this, the Lord brought all this ruin on them. ^a