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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.
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This house, now so exalted - everyone passing by will be shocked at the sight of it and will ask, 'Why has ADONAI done this to this land and to this house?'
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But the answer will be, 'It's because they abandoned ADONAI the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods, worshipping and serving them; this is why [ADONAI] brought all these calamities on them.'"