17. ‘As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,
18. I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, “You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.”
19. ‘But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,