2 Chronicles 7:17-19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ As for you, if you walk before me, as your father David walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, ¹⁸ then I will establish your royal throne, as I made covenant with your father David saying, ‘You shall never lack a successor to rule over Israel.’

¹⁹ “But if you^[a] turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,