1 Kings 9:4-7

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. ¹  9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, ²  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ³ 

9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, ⁴  and decide to serve and worship other gods, ⁵  9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land ⁶  I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ⁷  and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed ⁸  among all the nations.

[9:4]  ¹ 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.

[9:5]  ² tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

[9:5]  ³ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[9:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “which I placed before you.”

[9:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[9:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

[9:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

[9:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.