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 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow 11  my rules, observe 12  my regulations, and obey all my commandments, 13  I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. 14 

1 Kings 12:24

12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” 15  They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. 16 

1 Kings 13:17

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 17  ‘Do not eat or drink 18  there; do not go back the way you came.’”

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.”

9 tn Heb “walk in.”

10 tn Heb “do.”

11 tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

12 tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

13 tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

14 tn Heb “and they heard the word of the Lord and returned to go according to the word of the Lord.”

17 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

18 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”