2 Chronicles 7:12-22

New American Standard Bible

¹²Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and ^(A)have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. ¹³^(B)If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, ¹⁴^(C)and My people ^[a]who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ¹⁵^(D)Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the ^[b]prayer offered in this place. ¹⁶For ^(E)now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there ^[c]always. ¹⁷As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, to do according to everything that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My ordinances, ¹⁸then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘^[d]^(F)You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’

¹⁹“^(G)But if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰^(H)then I will uproot ^[e]you from My land which I have given ^[f]you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight; and I will make it ^(I)a proverb and an object of scorn among all peoples. ²¹As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘^(J)Why has the Lord done these things to this land and to this house?’ ²²And they will say, ‘Because ^(K)they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods, and worshiped and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.’”