1 Kings 9:1-7

1When Solomon finished building the temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,

2the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3The Lord said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

4As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances,

5I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.

6If you or your sons turn away from following me and do not keep my commands — my statutes that I have set before you — and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,

7I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.