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For now I have chosen and consecrated this house, so that my name can be there forever; my eyes and heart will always be there.
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As for you, if you will live in my presence, as did David your father, doing everything I have ordered you to do, and keeping my laws and rulings;
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then I will establish the throne of your rulership, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You will never lack a man to be ruler in Isra'el.'
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But if you turn away and abandon my regulations and mitzvot which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, worshipping them;
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then I will pull them up by the roots out of the land I have given them. This house, which I consecrated for my name, I will eject from my sight; and I will make it an example to avoid and an object of scorn among all peoples.