10. On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the Lord had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
11. Thus Solomon finished the Lord’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the Lord’s house and in his own house.
12. The Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
13. “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14. if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
15. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
16. For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.
17. “As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
18. then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’
19. But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;