1 Kings 9:4–9

⁴As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with integrity of heart^a and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep my ordinances and my judgments, ⁵then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘A man will not be cut off for you from upon the throne of Israel.’

⁶“If ever you or any of your descendants^b turn from following me and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances that I have set before you and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, ⁷then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, even the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples. ⁸This house shall become a heap of ruins; all those passing by will be appalled by it and hiss, and they will say, ‘On what account did Yahweh do this to this land and to this house?’ ⁹And they will say, ‘Because they have forsaken Yahweh their God who brought their ancestors^c out from the land of Egypt and they embraced other gods and bowed down to them and served them. Therefore, Yahweh brought on them all of this disaster.’ ”