2 Chronicles 7:17–22

¹⁷As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,^{* 18}then I will establish your royal throne, as I made a covenant^p with your father David saying, ‘You shall never lack a successor to rule over Israel.’^*

¹⁹“But if you^q turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you and go and serve other gods and worship them,^{* 20}then I will pluck you^r up from the land that I have given you,^s and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.^{* 21}And regarding this house, now exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’^{* 22}Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord the God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this calamity upon them.’ ”