1 Kings 2:4

David recalls God's promise that his descendants will keep the throne if they walk faithfully before the LORD. The dynasty's future depends on covenant loyalty.

Cross-references · 32

• 2 Kgs 20:3“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• 2 Sam 7:25Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
• 1 Kgs 8:25Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
• Ps 132:11–12Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
• Matt 22:37Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
• John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• Ps 89:29–37I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
• Lev 26:3“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
• 1 Kgs 9:5then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’
• Gen 18:19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
• Jude 1:20–21But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• Deut 6:5You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
• Deut 10:12Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Deut 11:13It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
• 1 Chr 22:9–11Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
• Deut 7:12It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
• Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
• 2 Kgs 23:25There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.
• 1 Kgs 3:3Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
• 1 Kgs 3:14If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
• Ps 37:22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
• 1 Kgs 8:23and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
• 1 Chr 28:5–7Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
• Ps 37:9For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
• Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
• 1 Chr 17:11–15It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• 2 Sam 7:11–16and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.
• Zech 14:2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
• 2 Kgs 23:3The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
• 2 Chr 17:3Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,
• Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.