1 Kings 3:14

3:14 If you follow my instructions¹ by obeying² my rules and regulations, just as your father David did,³ then I will grant you long life.”⁴

1 Kings 8:24

8:24 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David;⁵ this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.⁶

1 Kings 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive,⁷ so we can follow all his instructions⁸ and obey⁹ the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

1 Kings 9:4

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.¹⁰

1 Kings 11:10

11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods.¹¹ But he did not obey¹² the Lord’s command.

1 Kings 14:27

14:27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard¹³ who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

¹tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

²tn Or “keeping.”

³tn Heb “walked.”

⁴tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

⁵tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

⁶tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

⁹tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the Lord our God be with us.” The Hebrew term לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the people’s volition and will.

¹⁰tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

¹¹tn Heb “keep.”

¹³tn 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.

¹⁷tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”

¹⁸tn Or “keep.”

²¹tn Heb “runners.”