16. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there for ever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
17. ‘As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,
18. I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, “You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.”
19. ‘But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,