2 Ch 7:17-18
“As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked,
even to do according to all that I have commanded you,
and will keep My statutes and My ordinances,

then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying,
‘You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’

If you…
Then I…

Now, read the next part…

2 Ch 7:19-20
“But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you,
and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight
and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

“But”…one of the more powerful words in language.
But, another if/then statement.

If Solomon, and by extension the people…

• Turn away from the Lord
• Forsake His statutes
• Forsake His commandments
• Go and serve other gods
• Worship other gods

• Will uproot them from His land
• Will cast the consecrated House out of His sight
• Will make the House a proverb/byword among all the peoples/nations

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