2 Chronicles 7:21

In context

19But if you turn away and abandon the statutes and the commands I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, 20then I will tear them up from my ground, which I gave them, and this house, which I consecrated for my name, I will hurl out of my sight and make it a byword and a taunt among all the peoples. 21And this house, once so lofty — everyone passing by will be appalled at it and will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’ 22And the answer will be: ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and bowed to them and served them. That is why he has brought all this disaster on them.’”