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,(A) I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.(B)

If you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep My commands—My statutes that I have set before you—and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,(C)

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“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart(A) and uprightness, as David(B) your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,(C) I will establish(D) your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail(E) to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

“But if you[a] or your descendants turn away(F) from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you[b] and go off to serve other gods(G) and worship them,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.