1 It happened that as Solomon finished the building of the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the things Solomon desired to do,
2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him in Gibeon.
3 Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house which you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
4 As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep my ordinances and my judgments,