1-Kings - 3:14



14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Kings 3:14.

Differing Translations

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And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and Beep my precepts, and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will prolong thy days.
and if thou dost walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as David thy father walked, then I have prolonged thy days.'
And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.
And if you will walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, just as your father walked, I will lengthen your days."

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

I will lengthen thy days - The promise here was only conditional. As the condition was not observed 1-Kings 11:1-8, the right to the promise was forfeited, and it was not fulfilled. Solomon can scarcely have been more than fifty-nine or sixty at his death.

And if thou wilt walk in my ways,.... Prescribed and directed to in his word,
to keep my statutes and my commandments; ceremonial, moral, and judicial:
as thy father David did walk; which Solomon himself had observed, 1-Kings 3:6; and whose walk was worthy of his imitation:
then I will lengthen thy days; the other promises of riches and honour are absolute, but this of long life conditional, depending upon his holy walk and conversation; and hence, because he failed in this the Jews observe he did not attain to long life, dying, as they suppose, at fifty two years of age; which is grounded on a wrong hypothesis, that he was but twelve years of age when he he began to reign, and he reigned forty years, as before observed.

And if - This caution God gives him, lest his wisdom should make him proud, careless, or presumptuous.

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