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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Kings 3:14

And yf thou wilt walke in my wayes, so that thou kepe myne ordinaunces and lawes, as Dauid thy father hath walked, then wyll I geue the a longe lyfe.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Communion;   Contingencies;   David;   Dream;   Longevity;   Obedience;   Prayer;   Probation;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Blessings;   Life;   Long Life;   Longevity;   Obedience;   Obedience-Disobedience;   Probation;   Promises, Divine;   Statutes;   The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dreams;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Prayer;   Wisdom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of;   Idol;   Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - David;   Gibeon;   Intercession;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Worldliness (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dream;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day;   Divide;   Dream;   Intercession;   Wisdom of Solomon, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.”
Hebrew Names Version
If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my mitzvot, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."
New Century Version
If you follow me and obey my laws and commands, as your father David did, I will also give you a long life."
New English Translation
If you follow my instructions by obeying my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, then I will grant you long life."
Amplified Bible
"If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and My commandments, as your father David did, then I will lengthen your days."
New American Standard Bible
"And if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And if thou wilt walke in my wayes, to keepe mine ordinances & my commandements, as thy father Dauid did walke, I will prolong thy dayes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days."
Contemporary English Version
If you obey me and follow my commands, as your father David did, I'll let you live a long time.
Complete Jewish Bible
More than that, if you will live according to my ways, obeying my laws and mitzvot like your father David, I will give you a long life."
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
And I will give you a long life if you follow me and obey my laws and commands as your father David did."
George Lamsa Translation
And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
Good News Translation
And if you obey me and keep my laws and commands, as your father David did, I will give you a long life."
Lexham English Bible
If you will walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days."
Literal Translation
And if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commands, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And if thou wilt walke in my wayes, to kepe myne ordinaunces and my commaundementes, as thy father Dauid dyd walke, I will lengthen thy dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.'
King James Version (1611)
And if thou wilt walke in my wayes, to keepe my Statutes and my Commandements, as thy father Dauid did walke, then I will lengthen thy dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if thou wilt walk in my way, to keep my commandments and my ordinances, as David thy father walked, then will I multiply thy days.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, then I will prolong your days."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe if thou goist in my weies, and kepist my biddyngis and comaundementis, as thi fadir yede, Y schal make thi daies long.
Young's Literal Translation
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.'
Update Bible Version
And 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.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
New King James Version
So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."
New Living Translation
And if you follow me and obey my decrees and my commands as your father, David, did, I will give you a long life."
New Life Bible
And if you walk in My ways and keep My Laws and Word as your father David did, I will allow you to live a long time."
New Revised Standard
If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if thou wilt walk in my ways, by keeping my statutes, and my commandments, as, David thy father, walked, then will I lengthen out thy days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.
Revised Standard Version
And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days."

Contextual Overview

5 And the LORDE appeared vnto Salomon at Gibeon in a dreame of the nighte, and God sayde: Axe what I shal geue ye. 6 Salomo saide: Thou hast done greate mercy vnto my father Dauid thy seruaunt. Like as he walked before the in faithfulnes and righteousnes, and in a true hert with the, & this greate mercy hast thou layed vp for him, and geuen him a sonne to syt vpon his seate, as it is now come to passe. 7 Now LORDE my God, thou hast made thy seruaunt kynge in my father Dauids steade: As for me, I am but a small yonge man, knowynge nether my outgoynge ner ingoynge. 8 And thy seruaunt is amonge the people whom thou hast chosen: which is so greate, that no man can nombre them ner descrybe them for multitude. 9 Geue thy seruaunt therfore an obedient hert, that he maye iudge thy people, & vnderstonde what is good & bad: for who is able to iudge this thy mightie people? 10 This pleased the LORDE well, that Salomon axed soch a peticion. 11 And God sayde vnto him: For so moch as thou axest this, and desyrest not longe lyfe, nether riches, nether ye soules of thine enemies, but vnderstodinge to heare iudgment, 12 beholde, therfore haue I done acordynge to thy wordes. Beholde, I haue geuen the an hert of wy?dome and vnderstondynge, so that soch one as thou hath not bene before the, nether shall ryse vp after the. 13 Yee and that thou hast not prayed for, haue I geuen the also, namely, ryches, and honoure, so that amonge the kynges in yi tyme there is not soch one as thou. 14 And yf thou wilt walke in my wayes, so that thou kepe myne ordinaunces and lawes, as Dauid thy father hath walked, then wyll I geue the a longe lyfe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if thou: 1 Kings 2:3, 1 Kings 2:4, 1 Chronicles 22:12, 1 Chronicles 22:13, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 7:17-19, Psalms 132:12, Zechariah 3:7

as thy: 1 Kings 3:3, 1 Kings 9:4, 1 Kings 9:5, 1 Kings 15:5, 2 Chronicles 17:3, 2 Chronicles 17:4, 2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Chronicles 34:2, Acts 13:22

I will lengthen: Deuteronomy 5:16, Deuteronomy 25:15, Psalms 21:4, Psalms 91:16, Proverbs 3:2, Proverbs 3:16, 1 Timothy 4:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:12 - if thou wilt 1 Kings 11:33 - they have forsaken 1 Kings 11:38 - if thou wilt 1 Kings 14:8 - my servant David 1 Kings 15:3 - and his heart 2 Kings 16:2 - did not 2 Kings 18:3 - according

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Bvt the serpent was sotyller then all the beastes of the felde (which ye LORDE God had made) and sayde vnto the woman: Yee, hath God sayde indede: Ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden?
Genesis 3:15
And I wyll put enemyte betwene the and the woman, and betwene yi sede and hir sede. The same shal treade downe thy heade, and thou shalt treade him on the hele.
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wyfe Heua, because she is the mother of all lyuynge.
Genesis 9:6
He that sheddeth mas bloude, his bloude shal be shed by man agayne, for God made man after his owne licknesse.
Leviticus 20:25
that ye also shulde separate the cleane beestes fro the vncleane, and the vncleane foules from the cleane: & not to defyle youre soules vpon beestes, vpon foules & vpon all that crepeth on the grounde: which I haue separated vnto you, that they shulde be vncleane.
Psalms 72:9
They that dwell in the wildernes, shal knele before him, & his enemies shal licke the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
And thou shalt be brought lowe, and speake out of the earth, and thy wordes shal go humbly out of ye grounde.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolff and the lambe shal fede together, and the lyon shal eate haye like the bullocke. But earth shalbe the serpetes meate. There shal no man hurte ner slaye another, in all my holy hill, saieth the LORDE.
Micah 7:17
They shal licke the dust like a serpent, & as the wormes of the earth, yt tremble in their holes. They shalbe afrayed of the LORDE oure God, & they shal feare ye.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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