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As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
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I will establish your royal throne, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.
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However, if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,
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then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My name I will banish from My presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
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As for this temple, which was exalted, every passerby will be appalled and will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?