1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ¹  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ²  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ³  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, ⁵  provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “did.”

² tn Heb “walked before.”

³ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

⁴ 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.”

⁵ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

⁶ tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”