1Kings:9:1-9

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* And it happened , as Solomon finished building the house of Jehovah , and the house of the king , and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do , * that Jehovah appeared to Solomon a second time , as He appeared to him in Gibeon . * And Jehovah said to him , I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me ; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever ; and My eyes and My heart shall be there forever . * And you , if you walk before me as your father David walked , in singleness of heart , and in uprightness , to do according to all that I have commanded you ; you shall keep My statutes and My judgments ; * then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever , as I spoke to your father David , saying , there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel . * If you at all turn back , you and your sons , from following me , and do not keep My commands , My statutes which I have set before you , and you shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves to them , * then I shall cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given to them , and the house that I have hallowed for My name I shall send away from My face , and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples . * As to this house , which is high , everyone passing by it shall be astonished and shall hiss , and they shall say , Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house ? * And they shall say , Because they have forsaken Jehovah their God , who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt , and they laid hold on other gods and bowed themselves to them and served them . On account of this Jehovah has brought in upon them all this evil .

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