1 Kings 2:4

New American Bible - revised edition

and that the Lord may fulfill the word he spoke concerning me: If your sons so conduct themselves that they walk before me in faithfulness with their whole heart and soul, there shall never be wanting someone of your line on the throne of Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said: I am God the Almighty. Walk in my presence and be blameless.

Genesis 18:19

Indeed, I have singled him out that he may direct his children and his household in the future to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord may put into effect for Abraham the promises he made about him.

2 Samuel 7:25

Now, Lord God, confirm the promise that you have spoken concerning your servant and his house forever. Bring about what you have promised

1 Kings 1:48

This is what the king said: ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has this day provided one to sit upon my throne, so that I see it with my own eyes.’”

1 Kings 11:36

I will give his son one tribe, that David my servant may always have a holding before me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen, to set my name there.

1 Kings 3:14

And if you walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and commandments, as David your father did, I will give you a long life.

1 Kings 3:3

Although Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father, he offered sacrifice and burned incense on the high places.

1 Kings 6:12

As to this house you are building—if you walk in my statutes, carry out my ordinances, and observe all my commands, walking in them, I will fulfill toward you my word which I spoke to David your father.

1 Kings 8:23

he said, “Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below; you keep covenant and love toward your servants who walk before you with their whole heart,

1 Kings 8:25

And now, Lord, God of Israel, keep toward your servant, David my father, what you promised: There shall never be wanting someone from your line to sit before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants keep to their way, walking before me as you have.

1 Kings 9:5

I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father: There shall never be wanting someone from your line on the throne of Israel.

2 Kings 20:3

“Ah, Lord, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly I conducted myself in your presence, doing what was good in your sight!” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

2 Kings 23:25

Before him there had been no king who turned to the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, his whole being, and his whole strength, in accord with the entire law of Moses; nor did any king like him arise after him.

2 Kings 23:3

The king stood by the column and made a covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord and to observe his commandments, statutes, and decrees with his whole heart and soul, and to re-establish the words of the covenant written in this book. And all the people stood by the covenant. Josiah’s Religious Reform.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing soul, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the mind’s thoughts. If you search for him, he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will cast you off forever.

2 Chronicles 17:3

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the earlier ways of David his father, and did not seek the Baals.

2 Chronicles 6:16

And now, Lord, God of Israel, keep toward your servant, David my father, what you promised: There shall never be wanting someone from your line to sit before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants keep to their way, walking by my law, as you have.

2 Chronicles 7:18

I will establish the throne of your kingship as I covenanted with David your father when I said, There shall never be wanting someone from your line as ruler in Israel.

Psalm 119:9

How can the young keep his way without fault? Only by observing your words.

Psalm 37:22

For those blessed by the Lord will inherit the earth, but those accursed will be cut off.

Psalm 37:9

Those who do evil will be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord will inherit the earth.

Psalm 39:1

For the leader, for Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

Jeremiah 33:17

For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a successor on the throne of the house of Israel,

Leviticus 26:3

If you live in accordance with my statutes and are careful to observe my commandments,

Zechariah 14:2

And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: The city will be taken, houses will be plundered, women raped; half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

Matthew 22:37

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

Luke 1:6

Both were righteous in the eyes of God, observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

Deuteronomy 10:12

Now, therefore, Israel, what does the Lord, your God, ask of you but to fear the Lord, your God, to follow in all his ways, to love and serve the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and with your whole being,

Deuteronomy 11:13

If, then, you truly listen to my commandments which I give you today, loving and serving the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and your whole being,

Deuteronomy 6:5

Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart, and with your whole being, and with your whole strength.

Deuteronomy 7:12

As your reward for heeding these ordinances and keeping them carefully, the Lord, your God, will keep with you the covenant mercy he promised on oath to your ancestors.

Jude 1:24

To the one who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished and exultant, in the presence of his glory,