1 Raja-raja 3:6

3:6 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 Raja-raja 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, ⁵  provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ⁷  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ⁸  obey ⁹  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ¹⁰ 

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “did.”

[3:6]  ² tn Heb “walked before.”

[3:6]  ³ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

[3:6]  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.”

[8:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

[8:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”

[8:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ⁸ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ⁹ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.