For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his house after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken to him.

Then it shall come to pass, because you obey these judgments, and keep and do them, that Jehovah your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He has sworn to your fathers.

As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.

As the Father loves Me, I also love you; continue in My love.

If you keep My commandments, you will continue in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and continue in His love.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Now to Him who has the power to keep you from stumbling, and to present you without blemish before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

since the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. And Jehovah has declared to you that He will make you a house.

He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

And it shall be, when your days have been fulfilled to go to your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you from your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

I will be his Father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

According to all these words and according to all this vision, thus Nathan spoke to David.

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies all around. His name shall be Solomon, for I will give peace and tranquillity to Israel in his days.

Now, my son, may Jehovah be with you; and may you prosper, and build the house of Jehovah your God, as He has spoken concerning you.

And of all my sons (for Jehovah has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah, over Israel.

Moreover I will establish his kingdom forever, if he prevails to do My commandments and My judgments, as it is this day.

His seed also I have ordained eternally, and His throne as the days of Heaven.

if they break My Statutes and do not keep My Commandments,

Nevertheless in My lovingkindness I will not crush him, nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.

Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David:

it shall be established forever like the moon, a faithful witness in the clouds. Selah

Jehovah has sworn in truth unto David; He will not turn from it: I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body.

If your sons will keep My Covenant and My Testimony which I shall teach them, their sons also shall sit upon your throne continually.

And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he was sacrificing and burning incense at the high places.

So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David has walked, then I will prolong your days.

and he said: Jehovah the God of Israel, there is no god in the heavens above or on the earth below like You, who keeps Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect;

If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and do them,

Remember now, O Jehovah, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what was good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wailed with great weeping.

Then the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before Jehovah, to follow Jehovah and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the Words of this covenant that were written in this Book. And all the people stood for the covenant.

And before him there was no king like him, who turned to Jehovah with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor after him has any arisen like him.

And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of his father David; he did not seek the Baals,

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.

And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, with all your soul, exceedingly in every way.

And now, Israel, what is Jehovah your God asking of you, but to fear Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

And it shall be that if you give heed to obey My commandments which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

Therefore, Jehovah the God of Israel, now keep what You have promised Your servant David my father, saying, You shall not fail to have a man sitting before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.

When your days are fulfilled and you have rested with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.

For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait upon Jehovah, they shall inherit the earth.

For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, and those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. And the city shall be captured, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished. And half the city shall go into captivity and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.