14 if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.
15 I will watch over this Temple and be ready to hear all the prayers that are offered here,
16 because I have chosen it and consecrated it as the place where I will be worshipped for ever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time.
17 If you serve me faithfully as your father David did, obeying my laws and doing everything I have commanded you,
18 I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.
19 But if you and your people ever disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and worship other gods,
20 then I will remove you from the land that I gave you, and I will abandon this Temple that I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshipped. People everywhere will ridicule it and treat it with contempt.