1 Kings 9:1-5 ▼

1 When Solomon finished building the temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,

2 the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3 The LORD said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

4 As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances,

5 I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.