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The Lord Answers Solomon’s Prayer(A)

Solomon finished building Yahweh’s temple, the royal palace, and everything else he wanted to build. Then Yahweh appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him in Gibeon. Yahweh said to him,

“I have heard your prayer for mercy that you made to me.
I have declared that this temple which you have built is holy
    so that my name may be placed there forever.
        My eyes and my heart will always be there.

“If you will be faithful to me as your father David was
    (with a sincere and upright heart),
        do everything I command,
            and keep my laws and rules,
then I will establish your royal dynasty over Israel forever
    as I promised your father David when I said,
        ‘You will never fail to have an heir on the throne of Israel.’
But if you and your descendants dare to turn away from me
    and do not keep my commands and laws that I gave to you,
        and follow and serve other gods and worship them,
then I will cut Israel out of the land I gave them.
    I will reject this temple that I declared holy for my name.
    Israel will be an example
        and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.
Everyone passing by this temple, as impressive as it is, will be appalled.
    They will gasp and ask,
        ‘Why did Yahweh do these things to this land and this temple?’
    They will answer themselves,
        ‘They abandoned Yahweh their Elohim,
            who brought their ancestors out of Egypt.
        They adopted other gods, worshiped, and served them.
        That is why Yahweh brought this disaster on them.’”

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