14 if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
15 Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.
16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.
18 Then I will establish your dynasty, just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’
19 “But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,
20 then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations.