Text -- 1 Kings 9:1-5 (NET)

The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning

9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, 9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there. 9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. 9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ki 9:1

¹ tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 9:2

¹ sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.

NET Notes: 1Ki 9:3

¹ tn Heb “I have heard.”

² tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

³ tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 9:4

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.

NET Notes: 1Ki 9:5

¹ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

² tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”