2 Chronicles 7:17 (LSB)

Passage

As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments,

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 7:15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:16 So now I have chosen and set this house apart as holy that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

2 Chronicles 7:17 As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments,

2 Chronicles 7:18 then I will establish your royal throne as I cut a covenant with your father David, saying, ‘You shall not have a man cut off as ruler in Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:19 “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "walk", "before", "father", "david", "walked", "even", "commanded", and "keep". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "walk" and "before", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 16's "So now I have chosen and set..." into verse 18's "then I will establish your royal throne...", so "walk" and "before" belong inside that flow. In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "walk" and "before" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.