1 Kings 3:6

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 24:40

“Then he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I walk, will send His angel with you and prosper your way, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house.

2 Samuel 22:21

The Lord did for me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He recompensed me.

2 Samuel 22:25

The Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.

2 Samuel 7:5

Go and say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord: Do you intend to build a house for Me in which I will dwell?

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 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 2:4

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.’

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 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 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 Chronicles 1:8

Then Solomon said to God, “You have given a great mercy to David my father and have made me king in his place.

Psalm 116:7

Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

Psalm 119:17

Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.

Psalm 13:6

I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 15:2

He who walks uprightly, and does righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart;

Numbers 12:7

Not so with My servant Moses; he is entrusted with all My house.

2 Corinthians 9:11

So you will be enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which makes us give thanks to God.

2 Corinthians 9:5

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers to go ahead to you and arrange beforehand your bountiful gift you previously promised, that it might be prepared as a gift, not as a matter of greed.