2 Chronicles 7:17-22 (New International Version)
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"As for you, if you walk before me1 as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees2 and laws,
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I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted3 with David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a man4 to rule over Israel.'5
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"But if youa turn away6 and forsake7 the decrees and commands I have given youb and go off to serve other gods and worship them,
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then I will uproot8 Israel from my land,9 which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule10 among all peoples.
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And though this temple is now so imposing, all who pass by will be appalled11 and say,12 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'
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People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them13--that is why he brought all this disaster on them.' "
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