Discovery Box1 Kings 2:3 
Context2:3 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 11:33
Context11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him 5 because they have 6 abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions 7 by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. 8
1 tn Heb “keep the charge of the
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 The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
6 tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”
7 tn Heb “walked in my ways.”
8 tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”
