2 Tawarikh 7:17-19

7:17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ¹  7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty, ²  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’ ³ 

7:19 “But if you people ⁴  ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, ⁵  and decide to serve and worship other gods, ⁶ 

[7:17]  ¹ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.”

[7:17]  sn Verse 17 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 18.

[7:18]  ² tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”

[7:18]  ³ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”

[7:19]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew pronoun is plural, suggesting that Solomon and all Israel (or perhaps Solomon and his successors) are in view. To convey this to the English reader, the translation “you people” has been employed.

[7:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “which I placed before you.”

[7:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”