1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹  ‘If your descendants watch their step ²  and live faithfully in my presence ³  with all their heart and being, ⁴  then,’ he promised, ⁵  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁶ 

1 Kings 6:12

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow ⁷  my rules, observe ⁸  my regulations, and obey all my commandments, ⁹  I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 8:15

8:15 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled ¹¹  what he promised ¹²  my father David.

1 Kings 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. ¹³  I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor ¹⁴  of the Lord God of Israel

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ¹⁵  in the month Ethanim ¹⁶  (the seventh month).

1 Kings 7:12

7:12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the hall of the palace. ¹⁷ 

1 Kings 7:16

7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 7:1

The Building of the Royal Palace

7:1 Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace. ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 22:9-10

22:9 The king of Israel summoned an official and said, “Quickly bring Micaiah son of Imlah.”

22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, ²⁰  dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. ²¹  All the prophets were prophesying before them.

Psalms 89:28-39

89:28 I will always extend my loyal love to him,

and my covenant with him is secure. ²² 

89:29 I will give him an eternal dynasty, ²³ 

and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. ²⁴ 

89:30 If his sons reject my law

and disobey my regulations,

89:31 if they break ²⁵  my rules

and do not keep my commandments,

89:32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, ²⁶ 

their sin by inflicting them with bruises. ²⁷ 

89:33 But I will not remove ²⁸  my loyal love from him,

nor be unfaithful to my promise. ²⁹ 

89:34 I will not break ³⁰  my covenant

or go back on what I promised. ³¹ 

89:35 Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness,

I will never deceive ³²  David.

89:36 His dynasty will last forever. ³³ 

His throne will endure before me, like the sun, ³⁴ 

89:37 it will remain stable, like the moon, ³⁵ 

his throne will endure like the skies.” ³⁶  (Selah)

89:38 But you have spurned ³⁷  and rejected him;

you are angry with your chosen king. ³⁸ 

89:39 You have repudiated ³⁹  your covenant with your servant; ⁴⁰ 

you have thrown his crown to the ground. ⁴¹ 

Psalms 132:11-12

132:11 The Lord made a reliable promise to David; ⁴² 

he will not go back on his word. ⁴³ 

He said, ⁴⁴  “I will place one of your descendants ⁴⁵  on your throne.

132:12 If your sons keep my covenant

and the rules I teach them,

their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[6:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “walk in.”

[6:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “do.”

[6:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

[6:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

[8:15]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”

[8:15]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”

[8:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

[8:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “name.”

[8:2]  ¹⁵ sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

[8:2]  ¹⁶ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

[7:12]  ¹⁷ tn Or “the porch of the temple.”

[7:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”

[7:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “His house Solomon built in thirteen years and he completed all his house.”

[22:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”

[22:10]  ²¹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[89:28]  ²² tn Heb “forever I will keep for him my loyal love and will make my covenant secure for him.”

[89:29]  ²³ tn Heb “and I will set in place forever his offspring.”

[89:29]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and his throne like the days of the heavens.”

[89:31]  ²⁵ tn Or “desecrate.”

[89:32]  ²⁶ tn Heb “I will punish with a club their rebellion.”

[89:32]  ²⁷ tn Heb “with blows their sin.”

[89:33]  ²⁸ tn Heb “break”; “make ineffectual.” Some prefer to emend אָפִיר (’afir; the Hiphil of פָּרַר, parar, “to break”) to אָסִיר (’asir; the Hiphil of סוּר, sur, “to turn aside”), a verb that appears in 2 Sam 7:15.

[89:33]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and I will not deal falsely with my faithfulness.”

[89:34]  ³⁰ tn Or “desecrate.”

[89:34]  ³¹ tn Heb “and what proceeds out of my lips I will not alter.”

[89:35]  ³² tn Or “lie to.”

[89:36]  ³³ tn Heb “his offspring forever will be.”

[89:36]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and his throne like the sun before me.”

[89:37]  ³⁵ tn Heb “like the moon it will be established forever.”

[89:37]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and a witness in the sky, secure.” Scholars have offered a variety of opinions as to the identity of the “witness” referred to here, none of which is very convincing. It is preferable to join וְעֵד (vÿ’ed) to עוֹלָם (’olam) in the preceding line and translate the commonly attested phrase עוֹלָם וְעֵד (“forever”). In this case one may translate the second line, “[it] will be secure like the skies.” Another option (the one reflected in the present translation) is to take עד as a rare noun meaning “throne” or “dais.” This noun is attested in Ugaritic; see, for example, CTA 16 vi 22-23, where ksi (= כִּסֵּא, kisse’, “throne”) and ’d (= עד, “dais”) appear as synonyms in the poetic parallelism (see G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 91). Emending בַּשַּׁחַק (bashakhaq, “in the heavens”) to כַּשַׁחַק (kashakhaq, “like the heavens”) – bet/kaf (כ/ב) confusion is widely attested – one can then read “[his] throne like the heavens [is] firm/stable.” Verse 29 refers to the enduring nature of the heavens, while Job 37:18 speaks of God spreading out the heavens (שְׁחָקִים, shÿkhaqim) and compares their strength to a bronze mirror. Ps 89:29 uses the term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim, “skies”) which frequently appears in parallelism to שְׁחָקִים.

[89:38]  ³⁷ tn The Hebrew construction (conjunction + pronoun, followed by the verb) draws attention to the contrast between what follows and what precedes.

[89:38]  ³⁸ tn Heb “your anointed one.” The Hebrew phrase מְשִׁיחֶךָ (mÿshikhekha, “your anointed one”) refers here to the Davidic king (see Pss 2:2; 18:50; 20:6; 28:8; 84:9; 132:10, 17).

[89:39]  ³⁹ tn The Hebrew verb appears only here and in Lam 2:7.

[89:39]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “the covenant of your servant.”

[89:39]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “you dishonor [or “desecrate”] on the ground his crown.”

[132:11]  ⁴² tn Heb “the Lord swore an oath to David [in] truth.”

[132:11]  ⁴³ tn Heb “he will not turn back from it.”

[132:11]  ⁴⁴ tn The words “he said” are supplied in the translation to clarify that what follows are the Lord’s words.

[132:11]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “the fruit of your body.”