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. ¹ 

1 Kings 11:33

11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him ²  because they have ³  abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions ⁴  by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. ⁵ 

¹ tn 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.

² tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”

⁴ tn Heb “walked in my ways.”

⁵ tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”