1. It happened that as Solomon finished the building of the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the things Solomon desired to do,
2. Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him in Gibeon.
3. Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house which you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
4. As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep my ordinances and my judgments,
5. then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘A man will not be cut off for you from upon the throne of Israel.’