1 Kings 2:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

So may the Lord confirm his words, which he has spoken about me, saying: 'If your sons will guard their ways, and if they will walk before me in truth, with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not be taken away from you a man on the throne of Israel.'

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: "I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete.

Genesis 18:19

For I know that he will instruct his sons, and his household after him, to keep to the way of the Lord, and to act with judgment and justice, so that, for the sake of Abraham, the Lord may bring about all the things that he has spoken to him."

2 Samuel 7:25

Now therefore, O Lord God, raise up forever the word that you have spoken over your servant and over his house. And do just as you have said,

1 Kings 1:48

And he said: 'Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who today has bestowed someone to sit upon my throne, while my eyes may see it.' "

1 Kings 11:36

Then, to his son, I will give one tribe, so that there may remain a lamp for my servant David before me, for all days, in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, so that my name would be there.

1 Kings 3:14

And if you will walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, just as your father walked, I will lengthen your days."

1 Kings 3:3

Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father, except that he immolated in the high places, and he burned incense.

1 Kings 6:12

"Concerning this house, which you are building: if you will walk in my precepts, and carry out my judgments, and keep all my commandments, advancing by them, I will confirm my word to you, which I spoke to your father David.

1 Kings 8:23

And he said: "Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, nor on the earth below. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart.

1 Kings 8:25

Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill, for your servant David, my father, that which you spoke to him, saying, 'There shall not be taken away from you a man before me, who may sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons will guard their way, so that they walk before me, just as you have walked in my sight.'

1 Kings 9:5

then I will set the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised your father David, saying: 'A man from your stock shall not be taken away from the throne of Israel.'

2 Kings 20:3

"I beg you, O Lord, I beseech you, remember how I have walked before you in truth, and with a perfect heart, and how I have done what is pleasing before you." And then Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

2 Kings 23:25

There was no king before him similar to him, who returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, in accord with the entire law of Moses. And after him, there rose up no one similar to him.

2 Kings 23:3

And the king stood upon the step. And he struck a covenant before the Lord, so that they would walk after the Lord, and keep his precepts and testimonies and ceremonies, with all their heart and with all their soul, and so that they would carry out the words of this covenant, which had been written in that book. And the people agreed to the covenant.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And as for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind. For the Lord searches all hearts, and understands the thoughts of all minds. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will cast you aside for eternity.

2 Chronicles 17:3

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father, David. And he did not trust in the Baals,

2 Chronicles 6:16

Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you said to him, saying: 'There shall not fail to be a man from you before me, who will sit upon the throne of Israel, yet only if your sons will guard their ways, and will walk in my law, just as you also have walked before me.'

2 Chronicles 7:18

I will raise up the throne of your kingdom, just as I promised to your father David, saying: 'There shall not be taken away a man from your stock who will be ruler in Israel.'

Psalm 37:22

Do not forsake me, O Lord my God. Do not depart from me.

Psalm 37:9

I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.

Psalm 39:1

Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.

Jeremiah 33:17

For thus says the Lord: There shall not cease to be a man from David sitting upon the throne of the house of Israel.

Leviticus 26:3

If you will walk in my precepts, and observe my commandments, and accomplish them, I will give to you rain in its time,

Zechariah 14:2

And I will gather all the Gentiles in battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, and the houses will be ravaged, and the women will be violated. And the central part of the city will go forth into captivity, and the remainder of the people will not be taken away from the city.

Matthew 22:37

Jesus said to him: " 'You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

Luke 1:6

Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.

Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only that you fear the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul,

Deuteronomy 11:13

So then, if you obey my commandments, which I am instructing to you this day, so that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with your whole heart and your whole soul,

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Deuteronomy 7:12

If, after you have heard these judgments, you keep and do them, the Lord your God will also keep his covenant with you and the mercy that he swore to your fathers.

Jude 1:24

Then, to him who has the power to keep you free from sin and to present you, immaculate, with exultation, before the presence of his glory at the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ,