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And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
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Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
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For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
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And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
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then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man to rule Israel.'
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"But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
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