1 Kings 3:14
3:14 If you follow my instructions 1 by obeying 2 my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, 3 then I will grant you long life.” 4
1 Kings 8:58
8:58 May he make us submissive, 5 so we can follow all his instructions 6 and obey 7 the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.
1 Kings 8:61
8:61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God 8 by following 9 his rules and obeying 10 his commandments, as you are presently doing.” 11
1 Kings 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. 12
1 Kings 18:15
18:15 But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 13 lives (whom I serve), 14 I will make an appearance before him today.”
1 tn Heb “walk in my ways.”
2 tn Or “keeping.”
3 tn Heb “walked.”
4 tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”
5 tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the Lord our God be with us.” The Hebrew term לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the people’s volition and will.
6 tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”
7 tn Heb “keep.”
8 tn Heb “may your hearts be complete with the Lord our God.”
9 tn Heb “walking in.”
10 tn Heb “keeping.”
11 tn Heb “as this day.”
12 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.
13 tn Traditionally, “the Lord of Hosts.”
14 tn Heb “(before whom I stand).”