2 Chronicles / Question
God warned that if Solomon and Israel turned away and served other gods, they would be plucked up from the land. He said the house would become a byword and people would explain the ruin as the result of forsaking the LORD (2 Chronicles 7:19-22).
In 2 Chronicles 7:19–22, God warns that Israel’s future in the land and the temple’s standing depend on continued loyalty. If they abandon God’s commands and shift to serving other gods, God will remove them from the land and reject the temple from his presence. The destroyed, once-impressive temple will become a public shock. These verses conclude God’s response to Solomon after the temple dedication and Solomon’s prayer (the warning follows promises of hearing and restoring earlier in the same divine speech). The logic is conditional: blessing is tied to continued devotion, while reversal follows deliberate abandonment.
These verses present a conditional warning tied to Israel’s covenant life: if the people abandon the commands God set before them and shift to serving other gods, God will reverse earlier gifts. The reversal is described in two linked outcomes: removal from the land God gave, and rejection of the temple (“this house”) from God’s presence (2 Chr 7:19–20).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with 2 Chronicles 7:19-22, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
19But 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;
20then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
21This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
22They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.