1 Kings 2:3

2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you ¹  by following his instructions ²  and obeying ³  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, ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:61

8:61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God ⁵  by following ⁶  his rules and obeying ⁷  his commandments, as you are presently doing.” ⁸ 

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. ⁹ 

1 Kings 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive, ¹⁰  so we can follow all his instructions ¹¹  and obey ¹²  the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

1 Kings 11:19

11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well ¹³  he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 11:33

11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him ¹⁵  because they have ¹⁶  abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions ¹⁷  by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow ¹⁹  my rules, observe ²⁰  my regulations, and obey all my commandments, ²¹  I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. ²² 

1 Kings 9:6

9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, ²³  and decide to serve and worship other gods, ²⁴ 

1 Kings 11:11

11:11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, ²⁵  I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 11:34

11:34 I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.

1 Kings 14:25

14:25 In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

1 Kings 11:38

11:38 You must obey ²⁶  all I command you to do, follow my instructions, ²⁷  do what I approve, ²⁸  and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; ²⁹  I will give you Israel.

1 Kings 3:3

3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following ³⁰  the practices ³¹  of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

1 Kings 3:14

3:14 If you follow my instructions ³²  by obeying ³³  my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, ³⁴  then I will grant you long life.” ³⁵ 

1 Kings 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ³⁶  them there.

1 Kings 3:1

The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom

3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David ³⁷  until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. ³⁸ 

1 Kings 12:33

A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel

12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) ³⁹  Jeroboam ⁴⁰  offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. ⁴¹  He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

[2:3]  ¹ tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

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

[2:3]  ³ tn Or “keeping.”

[2:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

[8:61]  ⁵ tn Heb “may your hearts be complete with the Lord our God.”

[8:61]  ⁶ tn Heb “walking in.”

[8:61]  ⁷ tn Heb “keeping.”

[8:61]  ⁸ tn Heb “as this day.”

[9:4]  ⁹ 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.

[8:58]  ¹³ tn 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.

[8:58]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

[8:58]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “keep.”

[11:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”

[11:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”

[11:33]  ²¹ tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[11:33]  ²² tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”

[11:33]  ²³ tn Heb “walked in my ways.”

[11:33]  ²⁴ tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”

[6:12]  ²⁵ tn Heb “walk in.”

[6:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb “do.”

[6:12]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

[6:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

[9:6]  ²⁹ tn Heb “which I placed before you.”

[9:6]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[11:11]  ³³ tn Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”

[11:38]  ³⁷ tn Heb “If you obey.” In the Hebrew text v. 38 is actually one long conditional sentence, which has been broken into two parts in the translation for stylistic purposes.

[11:38]  ³⁸ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[11:38]  ³⁹ tn Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”

[11:38]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”

[3:3]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “Solomon loved the Lord by walking in.”

[3:3]  ⁴² tn Or “policies, rules.”

[3:14]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[3:14]  ⁴⁶ tn Or “keeping.”

[3:14]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “walked.”

[3:14]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

[18:40]  ⁴⁹ tn Or “slaughtered.”

[3:1]  ⁵³ sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[3:1]  ⁵⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[12:33]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”

[12:33]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:33]  ⁵⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.