11 ^oThus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king’s house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished. 12 Then ^pthe Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have ^qchosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are ^rcalled by my name ^shumble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now I have chosen and consecrated this house ^tthat my name may be there forever. My ^ueyes and my heart will be there for all time. 17 And as for you, ^vif you will walk before me ^was David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules, 18 then I will ^xestablish your royal throne, as I ^ycovenanted with David your father, saying, ^z‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’

19 “But if you¹ turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will ^apluck you² up from my land that I have given you, and ^bthis house that I have consecrated for my name, I will ^ccast out of my sight, and I will make it a ^dproverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ^e‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 22 Then they will say, ‘Because they ^fabandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has ^gbrought all this disaster on them.’”