“And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”
"'And I will be there in my presence, and my heart shall be there all my days; but if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,'" — God's *conditional promise*: the *divine presence* will be there *always* (*tamid*, continually), yet the *condition* is obedience. The *alternative*—*if you or your children turn aside and serve other gods*—introduces the *possibility of covenant rupture*.
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