1. When Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all else he desired,
2. the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3. The Lord said to him,“I have heard your prayer and supplication, which you made before Me. I have consecrated this house which you built by putting My name there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
4. “If you will walk before Me, as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, so that you are obedient to do all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments,
5. then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man upon the throne of Israel.’