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 3:14

3:14 If you follow my instructions ⁵  by obeying ⁶  my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, ⁷  then I will grant you long life.” ⁸ 

1 Kings 2:3-4

2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you ⁹  by following his instructions ¹⁰  and obeying ¹¹  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, ¹²  2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹³  ‘If your descendants watch their step ¹⁴  and live faithfully in my presence ¹⁵  with all their heart and being, ¹⁶  then,’ he promised, ¹⁷  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ¹⁸ 

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 15:3

15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been. ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 15:1

Abijah’s Reign over Judah

15:1 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah ²⁰  became king over Judah.

1 Kings 1:8-9

1:8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors ²¹  did not ally themselves ²²  with Adonijah. 1:9 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened steers at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, ²³  as well as all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.

1 Kings 1:2

1:2 His servants advised ²⁴  him, “A young virgin must be found for our master, the king, ²⁵  to take care of the king’s needs ²⁶  and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you ²⁷  and keep our master, the king, warm.” ²⁸ 

1 Kings 17:3-5

17:3 “Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. 17:4 Drink from the stream; I have already told ²⁹  the ravens to bring you food ³⁰  there.” 17:5 So he did ³¹  as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

John 14:15

Teaching on the Holy Spirit

14:15 “If you love me, you will obey ³²  my commandments. ³³ 

John 14:21

14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys ³⁴  them is the one who loves me. ³⁵  The one ³⁶  who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal ³⁷  myself to him.”

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ² tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ³ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  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.”

[3:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[3:14]  ⁶ tn Or “keeping.”

[3:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “walked.”

[3:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

[2:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

[2:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”

[2:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “keeping.”

[2:3]  ¹² tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

[2:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ¹⁶ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[15:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[15:1]  ²⁰ tc The Old Greek also has the phrase “the son of Rehoboam.”

[1:8]  ²¹ tn Or “bodyguard” (Heb “mighty men”).

[1:8]  ²² tn Heb “were not.”

[1:9]  ²³ tc The ancient Greek version omits this appositional phrase.

[1:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “said to.”

[1:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “let them seek for my master, the king, a young girl, a virgin.” The third person plural subject of the verb is indefinite (see GKC 460 §144.f). The appositional expression, “a young girl, a virgin,” is idiomatic; the second term specifically defines the more general first term (see IBHS 230 §12.3b).

[1:2]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and she will stand before the king.” The Hebrew phrase “stand before” can mean “to attend; to serve” (BDB 764 s.v. עָמַד).

[1:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and she will lie down in your bosom.” The expression might imply sexual intimacy (see 2 Sam 12:3 [where the lamb symbolizes Bathsheba] and Mic 7:5), though v. 4b indicates that David did not actually have sex with the young woman.

[1:2]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and my master, the king, will be warm.”

[17:4]  ²⁹ tn Heb “commanded.”

[17:4]  ³⁰ tn Heb “to provide for you.”

[17:5]  ³¹ tn Heb “So he went and did.”

[14:15]  ³² tn Or “will keep.”

[14:15]  ³³ sn Jesus’ statement If you love me, you will obey my commandments provides the transition between the promises of answered prayer which Jesus makes to his disciples in vv. 13-14 and the promise of the Holy Spirit which is introduced in v. 16. Obedience is the proof of genuine love.

[14:21]  ³⁴ tn Or “keeps.”

[14:21]  ³⁵ tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”

[14:21]  ³⁶ tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.

[14:21]  ³⁷ tn Or “will disclose.”