1 Kings 8:18

8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. ¹ 

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. ² 

1 Kings 11:4

11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to ³  other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:17

8:17 Now my father David had a strong desire ⁵  to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. ⁶ 

1 Kings 8:61

8:61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God ⁷  by following ⁸  his rules and obeying ⁹  his commandments, as you are presently doing.” ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 15:14

15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ¹²  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. ¹³  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive, ¹⁵  so we can follow all his instructions ¹⁶  and obey ¹⁷  the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

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. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 11:9

11:9 The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance ¹⁹  away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions ²⁰ 

1 Kings 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ²¹  ‘If your descendants watch their step ²²  and live faithfully in my presence ²³  with all their heart and being, ²⁴  then,’ he promised, ²⁵  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ²⁶ 

1 Kings 2:44

2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. ²⁷  The Lord will punish you for what you did. ²⁸ 

1 Kings 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ²⁹  as they acknowledge their pain ³⁰  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

1 Kings 8:48

8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being ³¹  in the land where they are held prisoner, ³²  and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ³³ 

1 Kings 10:2

10:2 She arrived in Jerusalem ³⁴  with a great display of pomp, ³⁵  bringing with her camels carrying spices, ³⁶  a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.

1 Kings 11:2

11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! ³⁷  If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” ³⁸  But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. ³⁹ 

1 Kings 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. ⁴⁰ 

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ⁴¹  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ⁴²  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ⁴³  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ⁴⁴ 

[8:18]  ¹ tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

[15:3]  ² tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[11:4]  ³ tn Heb “bent his heart after.”

[11:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[8:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father.”

[8:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.” The word “name” in the OT sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[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.”

[15:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the Lord all his days.”

[8:39]  ⁷ tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

[8:39]  ⁸ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[8:39]  ⁹ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[8:58]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

[8:58]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “keep.”

[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.

[11:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “bent his heart.”

[11:9]  ¹¹ sn These two occasions are mentioned in 1 Kgs 3:5 and 9:2.

[2:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ¹² tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ¹⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[2:44]  ¹² tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

[2:44]  ¹³ tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

[8:38]  ¹³ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[8:38]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

[8:48]  ¹⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[8:48]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”

[8:48]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[10:2]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew term חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or to the great wealth she brought with her.

[10:2]  ¹⁷ tn Or “balsam oil.”

[11:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”

[11:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[11:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.

[14:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

[3:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  ²¹ 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.”