1 Kings 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Solomon answered: “You have shown great kindness to your servant, David my father, because he walked before you with fidelity, justice, and an upright heart; and you have continued this great kindness toward him today, giving him a son to sit upon his throne.

Cross References

Genesis 24:40

he replied: ‘The Lord, in whose presence I have always walked, will send his angel with you and make your journey successful, and so you will get a wife for my son from my own family and my father’s house.

2 Samuel 22:21

The Lord acknowledged my righteousness; rewarded my clean hands.

2 Samuel 22:25

So the Lord rewarded my righteousness, the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

2 Samuel 7:5

Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the Lord: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?

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 15:5

because David had done what was right in the sight of the Lord and did not disobey any of his commands as long as he lived, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 2:4

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.

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 9:4

As for you, if you walk before me as David your father did, wholeheartedly and uprightly, doing all that I have commanded you, keeping my statutes and ordinances,

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 Chronicles 1:8

Solomon answered God: “You have shown great favor to David my father, and you have made me king to succeed him.

Psalm 116:7

Return, my soul, to your rest; the Lord has been very good to you.

Psalm 119:17

Be kind to your servant that I may live, that I may keep your word.

Psalm 13:6

But I trust in your mercy. Grant my heart joy in your salvation, I will sing to the Lord, for he has dealt bountifully with me!

Psalm 15:2

Whoever walks without blame, doing what is right, speaking truth from the heart;

Numbers 12:7

Not so with my servant Moses! Throughout my house he is worthy of trust:

2 Corinthians 9:11

You are being enriched in every way for all generosity, which through us produces thanksgiving to God,

2 Corinthians 9:5

So I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for your promised gift, so that in this way it might be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an exaction.