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For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
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And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, 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, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man to rule Israel.'
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"But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
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then I will pluck you up from the land which I have given you; 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.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.