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“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,
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I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’
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“But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,
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then I will uproot Israel from my land, 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 ridicule among all peoples.
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This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’