9When Solomon had finished^r building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, ²the Lord appeared^s to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. ³The Lord said to him:

“I have heard^t the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name^u there forever. My eyes^v and my heart will always be there.

⁴“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart^w and uprightness, as David^x your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,^y ⁵I will establish^z your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail^a to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

⁶“But if you^a or your descendants turn away^b from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you^b and go off to serve other gods^c and worship them, ⁷then I will cut off Israel from the land^d I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.^e Israel will then become a byword^f and an object of ridicule^g among all peoples. ⁸This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^c who pass by will be appalled^h and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ⁱ ⁹People will answer,^j ‘Because they have forsaken^k the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the Lord brought all this disaster^l on them.’ ”

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Footnotes

aThe Hebrew is plural.
bThe Hebrew is plural.
cSee some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now imposing, all

Cross references

rSee 2 Sa 7:2
sSee 1 Ki 3:5
tSee 1 Sa 9:16; 2 Ki 19:20; 20:5; Ps 10:17; 34:17
uSee Ex 20:24; See Dt 12:5
vSee Dt 11:12
wSee Ge 17:1
x Dt 17:20; 1 Ki 14:8; 15:5
ySee 1 Ki 3:14; 1 Ch 28:9; Pr 4:4
z 1 Ch 22:10
aSee 2 Sa 7:15
b Dt 28:15; 2 Sa 7:14; 2 Ki 18:12; Jer 17:27; 26:4; 32:23; 44:23
c 1 Ki 11:10
d Lev 18:24–28; Dt 4:26; See Jos 23:13; 2 Ki 17:23; Jer 24:10
e Dt 12:5; Jer 7:14
f Job 17:6; Ps 44:14; Jer 24:9; Joel 2:17
gSee Dt 28:37; Eze 5:15
hSee Lev 26:32
iSee Dt 29:24; Jer 7:4–15; Mt 23:38
j Dt 29:25; 2 Ki 22:17; Jer 5:19; 13:22; 16:11, 13; 22:9
kSee Nu 25:3; Jer 40:3; 44:23; La 4:12
lSee Dt 31:29