Discovery Box1 Kings 11:38-39 
Context11:38 You must obey 1 all I command you to do, follow my instructions, 2 do what I approve, 3 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; 4 I will give you Israel. 11:39 I will humiliate David’s descendants because of this, 5 but not forever.” 6
1 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.
2 tn Heb “walk in my ways.”
3 tn Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”
4 tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”
5 sn Because of this. Reference is made to the idolatry mentioned earlier.
6 tn Heb “but not all the days.”
