16. because I have chosen it and consecrated it as the place where I will be worshipped for ever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time.
17. If you serve me faithfully as your father David did, obeying my laws and doing everything I have commanded you,
18. I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.
19. But if you and your people ever disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and worship other gods,
20. then I will remove you from the land that I gave you, and I will abandon this Temple that I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshipped. People everywhere will ridicule it and treat it with contempt.