1. When SOLOMON had finished the building of The LORD's house, the king's house, and all SOLOMON's desire which he was pleased to do,

2. The LORD appeared to SOLOMON the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3. The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

4. As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

5. then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.'

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

7. then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

8. Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land, and to this house?'

9. and they will answer, 'Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this evil on them.'"

12. The LORD appeared to SOLOMON by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

13. "If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

14. if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

15. Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.

16. For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

17. "As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

18. then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.'

19. But if you 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 I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

21. This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?'

22. They shall answer, 'Because they abandoned The LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.'"