12 “As for this temple you are building—if you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep all my commands by walking in them,(A) I will fulfill my promise to you, which I made to your father David.(B)

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12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands(A) and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise(B) I gave to David your father.

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If 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,(A) I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them,(B) and I will reject[a] the temple I have sanctified for my name.(C) Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:7 Lit send from my presence

“But if you[a] or your descendants turn away(A) from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you[b] and go off to serve other gods(B) and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land(C) I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.(D) Israel will then become a byword(E) and an object of ridicule(F) among all peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.