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- When Solomon had finished building the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,
- the LORD appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
- The LORD said to him: "I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
- "As for you, if you walk before me in integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,
- I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'
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