1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹  ‘If your descendants watch their step ²  and live faithfully in my presence ³  with all their heart and being, ⁴  then,’ he promised, ⁵  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁶ 

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ⁷  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ⁸  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ⁹  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

² tn Heb “guard their way.”

³ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

⁴ tn Or “soul.”

⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

⁷ tn Heb “did.”

⁸ tn Heb “walked before.”

⁹ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”