Discovery Box1 Kings 3:14 
Context3:14 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
Context8:58 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 9:4
Context9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. 8
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
6 tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”
7 tn Heb “keep.”
8 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.
