“I have heard your prayer and have chosen^(J) this place for myself^(K) as a temple for sacrifices.

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,^(L) or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, ¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name,^(M) will humble^(N) themselves and pray and seek my face^(O) and turn^(P) from their wicked ways, then I will hear^(Q) from heaven, and I will forgive^(R) their sin and will heal^(S) their land. ¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.^{(T) 16} I have chosen^(U) and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

¹⁷ “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully^(V) as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees^(W) and laws, ¹⁸ I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted^(X) with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor^(Y) to rule over Israel.’^(Z)

¹⁹ “But if you^[a] turn away^(AA) and forsake^(AB) the decrees and commands I have given you^[b] and go off to serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰ then I will uproot^(AC) Israel from my land,^(AD) which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule^(AE) among all peoples. ²¹ This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[c] who pass by will be appalled^(AF) and say,^(AG) ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ ²² People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them^(AH)—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”