When Solomon had finished building the house of the lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build, the lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

The Lord said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house which you have built, and put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with the integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, there shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.

But if you turn aside from following me, you, or your children, and do not keep my commandment and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them.

Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out my of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

This house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss; and they will say, why has the Lord done this to this land and this house?

Then they will say because they forsook the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, laid hold on other gods, worshipped them, and served them.

Thanks for being with us. May the good lord bless us and show us the path to him.