the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.(A) The Lord said to him:

I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put[a] my name there forever;(B) my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.(C)

As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances,(D)

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