When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, ‘I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.
1 Kings 9:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, keeping My statutes and My precepts, American Standard Version (1901) And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances; Common English Bible As for you, if you walk before me just as your father David did, with complete dedication and honesty, and if you do all that I have commanded, and keep my regulations and case laws, Catholic Public Domain Version Also, if you will walk before me, just as your father walked, in simplicity of heart and in equity, and you do all that I have instructed to you, and you keep my laws and my judgments, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances and my judgments, |
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, ‘I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.
Didn’t he himself say to me, “She is my sister”? And she herself said, “He is my brother.” I did this with a clear conscience and clean hands.’
For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not turned from my God to wickedness.
‘ “After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight in order to keep my statutes and my commands as my servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.
When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.
Solomon did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, and unlike his father David, he did not remain loyal to the Lord.
tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what is right in my sight.
For David did what was right in the Lord’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hethite.
If you walk in my ways and keep my statutes and commands just as your father David did, I will give you a long life.’
Solomon loved the Lord by walking in the statutes of his father David, but he also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
And Solomon replied, ‘You have shown great and faithful love to your servant, my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, righteousness, and integrity. You have continued this great and faithful love for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
‘As for this temple you are building #– #if you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep all my commands by walking in them, I will fulfil my promise to you, which I made to your father David.
Therefore, Lord God of Israel, keep what you promised to your servant, my father David: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take care to walk before me as you have walked before me. ’
‘Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases you.’ , And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
but sought the God of his father and walked by his commands, not according to the practices of Israel.
The one who lives with integrity lives securely, but whoever perverts his ways will be found out.
A righteous person acts with integrity; his children who come after him will be happy.
The one who lives with integrity will be helped, but one who distorts right and wrong will suddenly fall.
He follows my statutes and keeps my ordinances, acting faithfully. Such a person is righteous; he will certainly live.’ This is the declaration of the Lord God.
‘This is what the Lord of Armies says: If you walk in my ways and keep my mandates, you will both rule my house and take care of my courts; I will also grant you access among these who are standing here.
Both were righteous in God’s sight, living blamelessly according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.
‘Now if you faithfully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.