1. After King Solomon had finished building the Temple and the palace and everything else he wanted to build,
2. the Lord appeared to him again, as he had in Gibeon.
3. The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer. I consecrate this Temple which you have built as the place where I shall be worshipped for ever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time.
4. If you will serve me in honesty and integrity, as your father David did, and if you obey my laws and do everything I have commanded you,
5. I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.