1 Kings 3:14 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 3:14

So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I will lengthen thy days - The promise here was only conditional. As the condition was not observed 1Ki 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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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִ֣ם׀	ve.'Im	and if	H518 →
תֵּלֵ֣ךְ	te.Lekh	you will walk	H1980 →
בִּדְרָכַ֗י	bid.ra.Khai	in ways my	H1870 →
לִשְׁמֹ֤ר	lish.Mor	to keep	H8104 →
חֻקַּי֙	chu.Kai	statutes my	H2706 →
וּמִצְוֹתַ֔י	u.mitz.vo.Tai	and commandments my	H4687 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
הָלַ֖ךְ	ha.Lakh	he walked	H1980 →
דָּוִ֣יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
אָבִ֑יךָ	'a.Vi.kha	father your	H1 →
וְהַאַרַכְתִּ֖י	ve.ha.'a.rakh.Ti	and I will make long	H748 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יָמֶֽיךָ׃ ס	ya.Mei.kha	days your	H3117 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

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
Proverbs 3:2
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
leads to
- Ephesians 6:1–3
  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- Proverbs 4:10
  Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
- Psalms 91:16
  With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
Through
Psalms 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
leads to
- Proverbs 3:2
  for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
- Proverbs 3:16
  Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
- Psalms 21:4
  He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.
- Psalms 50:23
  He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
- Isaiah 65:20–22
  No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails…