1 Raja-raja 8:61

8:61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God ¹  by following ²  his rules and obeying ³  his commandments, as you are presently doing.” ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ⁵ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ⁶  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 11:4

11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to ⁸  other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 11:1

The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry

11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

1 Tawarikh 28:9

28:9 “And you, Solomon my son, obey ¹⁰  the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, ¹¹  for the Lord examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, ¹²  but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.

Yesaya 38:3

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹³  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ¹⁴  and how I have carried out your will.” ¹⁵  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ¹⁶ 

[8:61]  ¹ tn Heb “may your hearts be complete with the Lord our God.”

[8:61]  ² tn Heb “walking in.”

[8:61]  ³ tn Heb “keeping.”

[8:61]  ⁴ tn Heb “as this day.”

[8:1]  ⁵ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[11:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “bent his heart after.”

[11:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[28:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “know.”

[28:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “with a complete heart and a willing being.”

[28:9]  ¹² tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

[38:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[38:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

[38:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”