Discovery Box1 Kings 3:6 
Context3:6 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
Context9:9 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
Context12:6 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?”
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.”
