1 Kings 2:3
2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you 1 by following his instructions 2 and obeying 3 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, 4
1 Kings 13:6
13:6 The king pled with 5 the prophet, 6 “Seek the favor of 7 the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor 8 and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. 9
1 Kings 22:8
22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 10 But I despise 11 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 12 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”
1 tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”
2 tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”
3 tn Or “keeping.”
4 tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”
5 tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”
6 tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).
7 tn Heb “appease the face of.”
8 tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”
9 tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”
10 tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”
11 tn Or “hate.”
12 tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.