1 Kings 15:5 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 15:5

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.

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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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (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).

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

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.

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.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
עָשָׂ֥ה	'a.Sah	he had done	H6213 →
דָוִ֛ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַיָּשָׁ֖ר	hai.ya.Shar	the right	H3477 →
בְּעֵינֵ֣י	be.'ei.Nei	in [the] eyes of	H5869 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְלֹֽא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
סָ֞ר	sar	he had turned aside	H5493 →
מִכֹּ֣ל	mi.Kol	from all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	that	H834 →
צִוָּ֗הוּ	tzi.Va.hu	he had commanded him	H6680 →
כֹּ֚ל	kol	all	H3605 →
יְמֵ֣י	ye.Mei	[the] days of	H3117 →
חַיָּ֔יו	chai.Yav	life his	H2416 →
רַ֕ק	rak	only	H7535 →
בִּדְבַ֖ר	bid.Var	in [the] matter of	H1697 →
אוּרִיָּ֥ה	'u.ri.Yah	Uriah	H223 →
הַחִתִּֽי׃	ha.chi.Ti	the Hittite	H2850 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 51:1
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
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.
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 independent 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…
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.

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonUnited MonarchyDavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.

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06About 1 Kings

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