1 After King Solomon had finished building the Temple and the palace and everything else he wanted to build,
2 the Lord appeared to him again, as he had in Gibeon.
3 The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer. I consecrate this Temple which you have built as the place where I shall be worshiped forever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time.
4 If you will serve me in honesty and integrity, as your father David did, and if you obey my laws and do everything I have commanded you,
5 I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.
6 But if you or your descendants stop following me, disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and worship other gods,
7 then I will remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them. I will also abandon this Temple which I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshiped. People everywhere will ridicule Israel and treat her with contempt.