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If you live before Me just as your father David did—with honor and righteousness, abiding by all that I have commanded you, keeping My laws and judgments— I will sustain your throne over Israel forever as I promised your father David that I would when I said, “Your descendants will never fail to sit upon Israel’s throne.”[a]

But if you or your offspring stray from Me, break My commands and laws that I have given you, and serve and worship other gods,

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  1. 9:5 2 Samuel 7:16

“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart(A) and uprightness, as David(B) your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,(C) I will establish(D) your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail(E) to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

“But if you[a] or your descendants turn away(F) from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you[b] and go off to serve other gods(G) and worship them,

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  1. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.