1 Raja-raja 11:6

11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; ¹  he did not remain loyal to ²  the Lord, like his father David had.

1 Raja-raja 11:38

11:38 You must obey ³  all I command you to do, follow my instructions, ⁴  do what I approve, ⁵  and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; ⁶  I will give you Israel.

1 Raja-raja 6:12-13

6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow ⁷  my rules, observe ⁸  my regulations, and obey all my commandments, ⁹  I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. ¹⁰  6:13 I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”

1 Raja-raja 8:61

8:61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God ¹¹  by following ¹²  his rules and obeying ¹³  his commandments, as you are presently doing.” ¹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 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. ¹⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 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. ¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 15:14

15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. ¹⁷ 

[11:6]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[11:6]  ² tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”

[11:38]  ³ tn Heb “If you obey.” In the Hebrew text v. 38 is actually one long conditional sentence, which has been broken into two parts in the translation for stylistic purposes.

[11:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[11:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”

[11:38]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”

[6:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “walk in.”

[6:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “do.”

[6:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”

[6:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”

[8:61]  ¹¹ tn Heb “may your hearts be complete with the Lord our God.”

[8:61]  ¹² tn Heb “walking in.”

[8:61]  ¹³ tn Heb “keeping.”

[8:61]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “as this day.”

[9:4]  ¹⁵ 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.

[15:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[15:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the Lord all his days.”