the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary,

They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.

They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.

But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty because of the promise he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty.