1 Kings 11:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires; you shall be king over Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires; and you shall be king over Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

Common English Bible

³⁷ But I will accept you, and you will rule over all that you could desire. You will be king of Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And I will take you up, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires. And you shall be king over Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ And I will take thee: and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

1 Kings 11:37 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:21

Abner said to David, “Let me go and rally all Israel to my lord the king, in order that they may make a covenant with you and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.” So David dismissed Abner, and he went away in peace.

1 Kings 11:26

Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, rebelled against the king.

1 Kings 11:36

Yet to his son I will give one tribe, so that my servant David may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.

1 Kings 11:38

If you will listen to all that I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you an enduring house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

1 Kings 12:20

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

1 Kings 14:7

Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because I exalted you from among the people, made you leader over my people Israel,

Deuteronomy 14:26

spend the money for whatever you wish: oxen, sheep, wine, strong drink, or whatever you desire. And you shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your household rejoicing together.