1 Kings 8:32

8:32 Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ¹ 

1 Kings 10:9

10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ²  you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” ³ 

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ⁴  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ⁵  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ⁶  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ⁷ 

[8:32]  ¹ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

[10:9]  ² tn Or “delighted in.”

[10:9]  ³ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[3:6]  ³ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  ⁶ 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.”