1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ¹  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ²  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ³  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ⁴ 

1 Kings 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer, ⁵  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors ⁶  out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ⁷  That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

1 Kings 12:6

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ⁸  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ⁹  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

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¹ tn Heb “did.”

² tn Heb “walked before.”

³ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

⁴ tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”

⁵ tn Heb “and they will say.”

⁶ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁷ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

⁸ tn Heb “stood before.”

⁹ tn Heb “saying.”