1 Kings 8:58

8:58 May he make us submissive, 1  so we can follow all his instructions 2  and obey 3  the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

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. 4 

1 Kings 11:10

11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. 5  But he did not obey 6  the Lord’s command.

1 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.

2 tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”

3 tn Heb “keep.”

4 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.

5 tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”

6 tn Or “keep.”