10. On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon dismissed the people to their tents, happy and content because of the goodness the Lord had shown to David, to Solomon, and to his people Israel.
11. In this way, Solomon finished the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He successfully accomplished everything he intended for the Lord’s temple and his own palace.
12. Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place as my house of sacrifice.
13. When I close the sky so that there is no rain or I order the locusts to consume the land or I send a plague against my people,
14. if my people who belong to me will humbly pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
15. From now on my eyes will be open and my ears will pay attention to the prayers offered in this place,
16. because I have chosen this temple and declared it holy so that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
17. As for you, if you will walk before me just as your father David did, doing all that I have commanded you and keeping my regulations and case laws,
18. then I will establish your royal throne, just as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a successor ruling in Israel.
19. But if any of you ever turn away from and abandon the regulations and commands that I have given you, and go to serve other gods and worship them,