1 Kings 14:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ and tore the kingdom away from the house of David to give it to you, yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my sight,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And rent the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you–and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes,

Common English Bible

⁸ I tore the kingdom from David’s house and gave it to you. But you haven’t been like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart by doing only what is right in my eyes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ and I tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and I gave it to you, yet you have not been like David, my servant, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with his whole heart, doing what was pleasing in my sight.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee: and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:

1 Kings 14:8 Cross References

1 Kings 15:5

because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 3:14

If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.”

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.

2 Chronicles 17:3

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father; he did not seek the Baals

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord, as his ancestor David had done,

Acts 13:22

When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart, who will carry out all my wishes.’

Acts 13:36

“For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died, was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption,