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1 Kings 15:5

in 1 Kings 15

For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

because David did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

KJV

Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

This verse in 1 Kings 15

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Save only in the matter of Uriah - Properly speaking, this is the only flagrant fault or crime in the life of David. It was a horrible offense, or rather a whole system of offenses. See the notes on 2 Samuel 11 (note), and 2 Samuel 12 (note).

This site's exposition

the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem

on 1 Kings 15:4-5

“Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem”. A king who fails David's standard still leaves a son on the throne. The promise answers 2 Samuel 7:14-15, and the phrase returns at 2 Kings 8:19 when Judah stands near collapse.

This site's exposition

except in the matter of Uriah

John Wesley reads turned aside as lasting apostasy from the LORD. Clarke calls the matter of Uriah the Hittite the one flagrant crime in all the days of David, told at 2 Samuel 11 and 12. Matthew Henry notes that David repented and the promise to his line stood.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 15:1 · Written before 373.

proposed

"Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah," and under his rule the Jews obtained a magnificent victory over the Israelites in a battle, which was greater than all those fought before in their civil wars. …

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Save only - This and the like phrases are not to be understood as exclusive of every sinful action, hut only of an habitual and continued apostasy from God, as the very phrase of turning aside from God, or from his commands, doth constantly imply. And thus it is most true.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

David was guilty of other faults, but they were nothing in comparison of that; yet even that being repented of, though it be mentioned for warning to others, did not prevail to throw him out of the covenant, nor to cut off the entail of the promise upon his seed.
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord,....

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עָשָׂ֥הhe had done

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • דָוִ֛דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיָּשָׁ֖רthe right

    haiyasharH3477 →119 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֣יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869 →887 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • סָ֞רhe had turned aside

    sarH5493 →299 times

  • מִכֹּ֣לfrom all

    mikolH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • צִוָּ֗הוּhe had commanded him

    tzivahuH6680 →494 times

  • כֹּ֚לall

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • יְמֵ֣י[the] days of

    yemeiH3117 →2304 times

  • חַיָּ֔יוlife his

    chaiyavH2416 →498 times

  • רַ֕קonly

    rakH7535 →109 times

  • בִּדְבַ֖רin [the] matter of

    bidvarH1697 →1440 times

  • אוּרִיָּ֥הUriah

    ʾuriyahH223 →

  • הַחִתִּֽי׃the Hittite

    hachitiH2850 →48 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 51:1

    Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

    it leads to

    • Acts 3:19

      Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

    • Isaiah 44:22

      I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

    • Isaiah 43:25

      I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

    • Psalms 51:9

      Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

    • Colossians 2:14

      having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 34:2

    And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 17:3

      Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek out the Baals,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Chronicles 29:2

      And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.

  • Through

    1 Kings 15:3

    And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 11:4

      For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 15:1; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.