1 Kings 2:4

Modern English Version

that the Lord may carry out His word that He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in faithfulness with all their hearts and with all their souls, you shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am Almighty God. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Genesis 18:19

I chose him, and he will instruct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He promised him.”

2 Samuel 7:25

“Now, Lord God, confirm forever the word that You spoke regarding Your servant and his house and do as You have spoken.

1 Kings 1:48

The king also said, ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day so that I could see with my own eyes.’ ”

1 Kings 11:36

To his son will I give one tribe, so that My servant David will always have a light before Me in Jerusalem, the city in which I have chosen to put My name.

1 Kings 3:14

If you will walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and My commandments as your father David did, then I will lengthen your days.”

1 Kings 3:3

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

1 Kings 6:12

“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My judgments and keep all My commandments and walk in them, then I will carry out My word with you, which I spoke to David your father,

1 Kings 8:23

and he said, “Lord God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below who keeps covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts,

1 Kings 8:25

“Therefore, Lord God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, ‘You will not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, so long as your sons take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’

1 Kings 9:5

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man upon the throne of Israel.’

2 Kings 20:3

“Please, O  Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with an undivided heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

2 Kings 23:25

Now there had been no king like him before or after, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses.

2 Kings 23:3

The king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord to follow the Lord, to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. All the people agreed with the covenant.

1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your fathers and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing spirit, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will abandon you forever.

2 Chronicles 17:3

Now the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked according to the previous ways of his father David; he did not seek out the Baals,

2 Chronicles 6:16

“And now, O  Lord God of Israel, keep what You promised Your servant David my father saying, ‘You will not lack a man sitting on the throne of Israel before Me, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’

2 Chronicles 7:18

then I will set the throne of your kingdom as I made a covenant with David your father saying, ‘You will not lack a man to rule Israel.’

Psalm 119:9

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

Psalm 37:22

For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

Psalm 37:9

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait on the Lord shall inherit the earth.

Psalm 39:1

I said, “I will guard my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are before me.”

Jeremiah 33:17

For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

Leviticus 26:3

If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do them,

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured and the houses plundered and the women ravished. Half of the city will go to exile, but the remainder of the people will not be cut off from the city.

Matthew 22:37

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Luke 1:6

They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

Deuteronomy 10:12

Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 11:13

It will be, if you will diligently obey My commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 6:5

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 7:12

If you listen to these judgments, keep them, and do them, then the Lord your God shall keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.

Jude 1:24

Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with rejoicing,