1 Kings 2:2-4

2:2 “I am about to die. ¹  Be strong and become a man! 2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you ²  by following his instructions ³  and obeying ⁴  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, ⁵  2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ⁶  ‘If your descendants watch their step ⁷  and live faithfully in my presence ⁸  with all their heart and being, ⁹  then,’ he promised, ¹⁰  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ¹¹ 

[2:2]  ¹ tn Heb “going the way of all the earth.”

[2:3]  ² tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

[2:3]  ³ tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”

[2:3]  ⁴ tn Or “keeping.”

[2:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ⁹ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”