¹⁰ and ^(A)had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord had commanded.

¹² “Concerning this ^[a]temple which you are building, ^(A)if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My ^[b]word with you, ^(B)which I spoke to your father David. ¹³ And ^(C)I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not ^(D)forsake My people Israel.”

^17 (A)As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, ¹⁸ then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ^(B)‘You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.’

^19 (C)“But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them, ^20 (D)then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have ^[a]sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a ^(E)byword among all peoples.

²¹ “And as for ^(F)this ^[b]house, which ^[c]is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be ^(G)astonished and say, ^(H)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this house?’ ²² Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.’ ”

⁴ Now if you ^(A)walk before Me ^(B)as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you ^(C)keep My statutes and My judgments, ⁵ then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, ^(D)as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’ ^6 (E)But if you or your sons at all ^[a]turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, ^7 (F)then I will ^[b]cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated ^(G)for My name I will cast out of My sight. ^(H)Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.