9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, 4 and decide to serve and worship other gods, 5 9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land 6 I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, 7 and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed 8 among all the nations.
1 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.
2 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
3 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
4 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
5 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
6 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
7 tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”
8 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.