2Chronicles:7:11-22

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* Thus did Solomon complete the house of the Lord , and the king ’s house ; and all that came into Solomon ’s heart to make in the house of the Lord , and in his own house , he prospered . * Then appeared the Lord to Solomon during the night , and said unto him , I have heard thy prayer , and I have made choice of this place for myself as a house of sacrifice . * If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain , or if I give a charge to the locusts to devour off the land , or if I send a pestilence among my people : * And if my people , over whom my name is called , do then humble themselves , and pray , and seek my presence , and turn away from their evil ways : then will I also hear from heaven , and I will forgive their sin , and will heal their land . * Now , my eyes shall be open , and my ears attentive unto the prayer on this place . * And now I have chosen and hallowed this house , that my name may be there for ever ; and my eyes and my heart shall be there at all times . * And as for thee , if thou wilt walk before me , as David thy father hath walked , so as to do in accordance with all that I have commanded thee , and wilt keep my statutes and my ordinances : * Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom , just as I have covenanted with David thy father , saying , There shall never fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel . * But if ye will indeed turn away , and forsake my statutes and my commandments , which I have set before you , and will go and serve other gods , and bow down to them : * Then will I pluck them up out of my land which I have given unto them ; and this house , which I have hallowed for my name , will I cast away from my sight , and I will render it to be for a proverb and for a by –word among all the people . * And this house , which hath been so exalted , shall become an astonishment to every one that passeth by it : so that he will say , Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land , and unto this house ? * And men shall then say , For the cause that they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers , who had brought them forth out of the land of Egypt , and they took hold of other gods , and bowed down to them , and served them : therefore hath he brought upon them all this evil .

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