1 Kings 2:3-4

2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you ¹  by following his instructions ²  and obeying ³  his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, ⁴  2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ⁵  ‘If your descendants watch their step ⁶  and live faithfully in my presence ⁷  with all their heart and being, ⁸  then,’ he promised, ⁹  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

² tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”

³ tn Or “keeping.”

⁴ tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

⁵ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

⁶ tn Heb “guard their way.”

⁷ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

⁸ tn Or “soul.”

⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”