Discovery Box1 Kings 8:58 
Context8:58 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
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. 4
1 Kings 11:10
Context11:10 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
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.”
