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After King Solomon had finished building the Temple and the palace and everything else he wanted to build,
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the Lord appeared to him again, as he had in Gibeon.
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The Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer. I consecrate this Temple which you have built as the place where I shall be worshiped forever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time.
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If you will serve me in honesty and integrity, as your father David did, and if you obey my laws and do everything I have commanded you,
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I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.