¹² “As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands^(A) and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise^(B) I gave to David your father.

¹⁰ He is the one who will build a house for my Name.^(A) He will be my son,^(B) and I will be his father. And I will establish^(C) the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’^(D)

⁴ and that the Lord may keep his promise^(A) to me: ‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully^(B) before me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’