4. If you carry out these commands, kings who succeed to the throne of David will continue to enter the gates of this house, riding in chariots or mounted on horses, with their ministers, and their people.
5. But if you do not obey these commands, I swear by myself—oracle of the Lord: this house shall become rubble.
6. For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:Though you be to me like Gilead,like the peak of Lebanon,I swear I shall turn you into a waste,with cities uninhabited.
7. Against you I will send destroyers,each with their tools:They shall cut down your choice cedars,and cast them into the fire.
8. Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another: “Why has the Lord done this to so great a city?”