1 Kings 8:60

8:60 Then ¹  all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God. ² 

1 Kings 11:12

11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

1 Kings 11:39

11:39 I will humiliate David’s descendants because of this, ³  but not forever.” ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:40-41

8:40 Then they will obey ⁵  you throughout their lifetimes as ⁶  they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

8:41 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation. ⁷ 

1 Kings 11:13

11:13 But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave ⁸  your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”

1 Kings 11:32

11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 15:4

15:4 Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God maintained his dynasty ⁹  in Jerusalem by giving him a son ¹⁰  to succeed him ¹¹  and by protecting Jerusalem. ¹² 

1 Kings 2:3-4

2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you ¹³  by following his instructions ¹⁴  and obeying ¹⁵  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, ¹⁶  2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹⁷  ‘If your descendants watch their step ¹⁸  and live faithfully in my presence ¹⁹  with all their heart and being, ²⁰  then,’ he promised, ²¹  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ²² 

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 11:36

11:36 I will leave ²³  his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me ²⁴  in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. ²⁵ 

1 Kings 12:15

12:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events ²⁶  so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made ²⁷  through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ²⁸  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ²⁹  obey ³⁰  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ³¹ 

[8:60]  ¹ tn Heb “so that.”

[8:60]  ² tn Heb “the Lord, he is the God, there is no other.”

[11:39]  ³ sn Because of this. Reference is made to the idolatry mentioned earlier.

[11:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “but not all the days.”

[8:40]  ⁵ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:40]  ⁶ tn Heb “all the days [in] which.”

[8:41]  ⁷ tn Heb “your name.” In the OT the word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[11:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “give.”

[15:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “gave him a lamp.”

[15:4]  ¹² tc The Old Greek has the plural “his sons.”

[15:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “by raising up his son after him.”

[15:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and by causing Jerusalem to stand firm.”

[2:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

[2:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”

[2:3]  ¹⁵ tn Or “keeping.”

[2:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”

[2:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ¹⁸ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[11:36]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “give.”

[11:36]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.

[11:36]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”

[12:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “because this turn of events was from the Lord.”

[12:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “so that he might bring to pass his word which the Lord spoke.”

[8:43]  ²¹ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ²² tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ²³ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ²⁴ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.