1 Kings 8:26

8:26 Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made ¹  to your servant, my father David, be realized. ² 

1 Kings 8:24

8:24 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ³  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:53

8:53 After all, ⁵  you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, ⁶  just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

1 Kings 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, ⁷  provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ ⁸ 

[8:26]  ¹ tn Heb “the words that you spoke.”

[8:26]  ² tn Or “prove to be reliable.”

[8:24]  ³ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

[8:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

[8:53]  ⁵ tn Or “For.”

[8:53]  ⁶ tn Heb “your inheritance.”

[8:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

[8:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”