(A)But if you or your sons at all [a]turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, (B)then I will [b]cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated (C)for My name I will cast out of My sight. (D)Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And as for (E)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, (F)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

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  1. 1 Kings 9:6 turn back
  2. 1 Kings 9:7 destroy

“But if you[a] or your descendants turn away(A) from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you[b] and go off to serve other gods(B) and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land(C) I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.(D) Israel will then become a byword(E) and an object of ridicule(F) among all peoples. This temple will become a heap of rubble. All[c] who pass by will be appalled(G) and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’(H)

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  1. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.
  3. 1 Kings 9:8 See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now imposing, all