2 Chronicles 7:17 (WEB)

Passage

“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 7:15 Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:16 For now I have chosen and made this house 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 David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

2 Chronicles 7:18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be 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 shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "walk", "before", "david", "father", "walked", "commanded", "keep", and "statutes". 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 "For now I have chosen and made..." into verse 18's "then I will establish the throne of...", 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.