1Kings:9:1-9
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When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king '
s house and all that Solomon desired to build ,
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the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time ,
as he had appeared to him at Gibeon .
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And the LORD said to him , "
I have heard your prayer and your supplication ,
which you have made before me ;
I have consecrated this house which you have built ,
and put my name there for ever ;
my eyes and my heart will be there for all time .
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And as for you ,
if you will walk before me ,
as David your father walked ,
with integrity of heart and uprightness ,
doing according to all that I have commanded you ,
and keeping my statutes and my ordinances ,
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then I will establish your royal throne over Israel for ever ,
as I promised David your father ,
saying , `
There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel .'
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But if you turn aside from following me ,
you or your children ,
and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you ,
but go and serve other gods and worship them ,
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then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them ;
and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight ;
and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples .
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And this house will become a heap of ruins ;
everyone passing by it will be astonished ,
and will hiss ;
and they will say , `
Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house ?'
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Then they will say , `
Because they forsook the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt ,
and laid hold on other gods ,
and worshiped them and served them ;
therefore the LORD has brought all this evil upon them .'"
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