Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will keep him as a ruler all the days of his life for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, because he kept My mitzvot and My statutes.
1 Kings 3:3 - Tree of Life Version Now Solomon loved Adonai, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he kept sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Solomon loved the Lord, walking [at first] in the statutes and practices of David his father, only he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. American Standard Version (1901) And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. Common English Bible Now Solomon loved the LORD by walking in the laws of his father David, with the exception that he also sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines. Catholic Public Domain Version Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father, except that he immolated in the high places, and he burned incense. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David his father. Only he sacrificed in the high places, and burnt incense. |
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will keep him as a ruler all the days of his life for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, because he kept My mitzvot and My statutes.
Then it will be, if you obey everything I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My eyes, keeping My statutes and My mitzvot as My servant David did, then I will be with you, and will establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David—I will give Israel to you.
For it came about, as Solomon grew old, that his wives led his heart away after other gods, so that his heart was no longer wholly devoted to Adonai his God, unlike the heart of his father David.
So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Adonai and did not fully follow after Adonai, unlike his father David.
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it you. Yet you have not been like My servant David who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
But they did not take away the high places. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to Adonai all his days.
He walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to Adonai his God, like the heart of his father David.
For David did what was right in Adonai’s eyes and did not turn aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
He walked in all the ways of his father Asa, not straying from them, but doing what was right in Adonai’s eyes.
However, they did not take away the high places, and the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
Furthermore, if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
Solomon said: “You have shown my father Your servant David great lovingkindness, as he walked before You in truth, righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You. Indeed, You have kept this great lovingkindness for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
“Now therefore, Adonai, God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father what You have promised him, saying: ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your children watch their way, walking before Me as you have walked before Me.’
Let your heart, therefore, be wholly devoted to Adonai Eloheinu, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as it is today.”
“As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked—in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing all I commanded you, keeping My statutes and My ordinances—
Now Jehoash did what was right in Adonai’s eyes all his days, just as Jehoiada the kohen instructed him.
The high places, however, were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Now he did what was right in the eyes of Adonai, yet not like his father David—he did like all his father Joash had done.
Still, the high places were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
However, the high places were not taken away, and the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. It was he who built the upper gate of the House of Adonai.
However, the high places were not taken away—the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
“But if you say to me: ‘We trust in Adonai our God’—is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has removed, and then said to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
He removed the high places, smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made—for up to those days Bnei-Yisrael were still burning incense to it—it was called Nehushtan .
Though the high places were not removed from Israel, still Asa’s heart was completely committed to Adonai all his days.
Adonai watches over all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
I said in my alarm, “I have been cut off from Your sight!” But You heard the sound of my pleas when I cried out to You.
Thus Bnei-Yisrael may bring their sacrifices that they were making in the open field to Adonai, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to the kohen, and offer them as sacrifices of fellowship offerings to Adonai.
And He said to him, “‘You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
Now we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose.
“So now, O Israel, what does Adonai your God require of you, but to fear Adonai your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
to keep the mitzvot of Adonai and His statutes that I am commanding you today, for your own good?
“Now if you listen obediently to My mitzvot that I am commanding you today—to love Adonai your God and to serve Him with all your heart and soul—
What I am commanding you today is to love Adonai your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His mitzvot, statutes and ordinances. Then you will live and multiply, and Adonai your God will bless you in the land you are going in to possess.
by loving Adonai your God, listening to His voice, and clinging to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell on the land that Adonai swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob—to give them.
Also Adonai your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants—to love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.
Love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love Him.
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom that He promised to those who love Him?
They answered them and said, “He is there, ahead of you. Hurry now, for he has come today to the town because people have a sacrifice at the high place today.