1 Kings 3:3

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 11:34

“However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David My servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept My commandments and My statutes.

1 Kings 11:38

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you and will walk in My ways and do what is right in My sight to keep My statutes and My commandments, as David My servant did, I will be with you and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David his father had been.

1 Kings 11:6

Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not fully follow the Lord as his father David had done.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built high places and images and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14:8

and took the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it you. Yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart to do only that which was right in My eyes,

1 Kings 15:11

Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done.

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not all removed, even though Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 15:3

He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

1 Kings 15:5

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

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in all the ways of Asa his father. He did not turn aside, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken down, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

1 Kings 22:44

So Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

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 3:6

Solomon answered, “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart toward You. And You have shown him great kindness in giving him a son to sit on his throne this day.

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 8:61

Let your hearts, therefore, be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”

1 Kings 9:4

“If you will walk before Me, as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, so that you are obedient to do all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments,

2 Kings 12:3

However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings in the high places.

2 Kings 12:4

Now Jehoash said to the priests, “All the consecrated money that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is currently assessed, and all the money that is brought voluntarily to the house of the Lord,

2 Kings 14:3

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, only not like David his father. He did everything that Joash his father did.

2 Kings 14:4

But he did not remove the high places. Still the people sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

Only he did not remove the high places. The people continued sacrificing and making offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 15:4

But the high places were not removed. The people continued sacrificing and making offerings on the high places.

2 Kings 18:22

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, broke down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and crushed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the Israelites had made offerings to it. They called it Nehushtan.

2 Chronicles 15:17

But they did not remove the high places from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly committed all his days.

Psalm 145:20

The Lord preserves all those who love Him, but all the wicked will He destroy.

Psalm 31:23

Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, but fully repays the one who acts in pride.

Leviticus 17:5

This is so that the Israelites may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them to the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and offer them for peace offerings to the Lord.

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.’

John 14:15

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John 14:21

He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father. And I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

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 10:13

to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?

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 30:16

What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. Then the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.

Deuteronomy 30:20

that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

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.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers. Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?

1 Samuel 9:12

And they answered them and said, “He is. Behold, he is ahead of you. Hurry now, for today he came to the city, because there is a sacrifice for the people in the high place today.