2 Chronicles 7:19
Good News Translation
But if you and your people ever disobey the laws and commands I have given you and worship other gods,

New Revised Standard Version
“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Contemporary English Version
But if you or any of the people of Israel disobey my laws or start worshiping foreign gods,

New American Bible
But if ever you turn away and forsake my commandments and statutes which I set before you, and proceed to serve other gods, and bow down to them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,

if ye turn away

Leviticus 26:14,33 But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments: . . .

Deuteronomy 28:15,36,37 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. . . .

1 Samuel 12:25 But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall perish together.

1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

shall go

Deuteronomy 4:23-27 Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made: . . .

Joshua 23:15,16 Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed, what he promised, and all things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you all the evils he hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you, . . .

1 Kings 9:6,7 But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and adore them: . . .

1 Kings 11:4-8 And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father. . . .

Context
The LORD's Response to Solomon
18I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, as I promised to David thy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man of thy stock to be ruler in Israel. 19But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,20I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:14
But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:

Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

Numbers 32:15
For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.

Deuteronomy 28:15
But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

Jeremiah 9:13
And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.

2 Chronicles 7:18
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