30 “If his sons forsake my law
    and do not follow my statutes,

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30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

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14 I will be his father, and he will be my son.(A) When he does wrong, I will punish him(B) with a rod(C) wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.

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14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

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53 Indignation grips me(A) because of the wicked,
    who have forsaken your law.(B)

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53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

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“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion(A) and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart(B) and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him,(C) he will be found by you; but if you forsake(D) him, he will reject(E) you forever.

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And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

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Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly.(A)

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And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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19 I am the Lord your God;(A) follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.(B)

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19 I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

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17 He withholds his hand from mistreating the poor
    and takes no interest or profit from them.
He keeps my laws(A) and follows my decrees.

He will not die for his father’s sin; he will surely live.

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17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

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He follows my decrees(A)
    and faithfully keeps my laws.
That man is righteous;(B)
    he will surely live,(C)
declares the Sovereign Lord.

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Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

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13 The Lord said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.(A) 14 Instead, they have followed(B) the stubbornness of their hearts;(C) they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.” 15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food(D) and drink poisoned water.(E) 16 I will scatter them among nations(F) that neither they nor their ancestors have known,(G) and I will pursue them with the sword(H) until I have made an end of them.”(I)

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13 And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

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Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked,
    but those who heed it resist them.

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They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

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I give you sound learning,
    so do not forsake my teaching.

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For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

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12 If your sons keep my covenant(A)
    and the statutes I teach them,
then their sons will sit
    on your throne(B) for ever and ever.”

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12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

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

19 “But if you[a] turn away(F) and forsake(G) the decrees and commands I have given you[b] and go off to serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot(H) Israel from my land,(I) 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(J) among all peoples. 21 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All[c] who pass by will be appalled(K) and say,(L) ‘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(M)—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 7:19 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. 2 Chronicles 7:19 The Hebrew is plural.
  3. 2 Chronicles 7:21 See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now so imposing, all

17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

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