1 Kings 6:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

As for this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will fulfill my word with you, which I spoke to David your father:

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and carry out my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Let this be the house yt thou buyldest. Yf thou shalt walke in myne ordinaunces, & do acordinge to my lawes, & kepe all my comaundementes, to walke therin, then wyl I stably?she my worde with ye, ( as I sayde vnto Dauid thy father)

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Cocerning this house which thou buildest, if thou wilt walke in mine ordinances, & execute my iudgements, & keepe al my commadements, to walke in them, then will I performe vnto thee my promes, which I promised to Dauid thy father.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Concerning the house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walke in myne ordinaunces, and execute my lawes, and kepe all my commaundementes to walke in them: then wyll I make good vnto thee my promise which I promysed Dauid thy father:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `This house that thou art building -- if thou dost walk in My statutes, and My judgments dost do, yea, hast done all My commands, to walk in them, then I have established My word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 22:10 : 10 He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: for the LORD 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 Chr 7:17-18 : 17 As for you, if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My judgments; 18 Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I have covenanted with David your father, saying, You shall not fail to have a man to be ruler in Israel.
  • Ps 132:12 : 12 If your children will keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne forevermore.
  • Zech 3:7 : 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place to walk among these who stand by.
  • Col 1:23 : 23 If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature under heaven; of which I, Paul, am made a minister;
  • 1 Sam 12:14-15 : 14 If you will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both you and also the king that reigns over you continue following the LORD your God: 15 But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
  • 2 Sam 7:12-16 : 12 And when your days are fulfilled, and you shall rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, which shall come out of your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
  • 1 Kgs 2:3-4 : 3 And keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself: 4 That the Lord may continue His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 3:14 : 14 And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.
  • 1 Kgs 8:25 : 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3-6 : 3 And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. 4 And if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments: 5 Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel. 6 But if you or your children turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 7:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17As for you, if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My judgments;

    18Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I have covenanted with David your father, saying, You shall not fail to have a man to be ruler in Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
    84%

    11And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 11:38
    84%

    38And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3-4
    2 verses
    83%

    3And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

    4And if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments:

  • 1 Kgs 3:14
    82%

    14And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.

  • 1 Chr 28:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6And he said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

    7Moreover I will establish his kingdom forever, if he remains steadfast to obey my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.

  • 2 Chr 6:15-18
    4 verses
    79%

    15You who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him; and spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

    16Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that your children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as you have walked before me.

    17Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you have spoken to your servant David.

    18But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

  • 1 Chr 22:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

    11Now, my son, the LORD be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of the LORD your God, as he has said of you.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    78%

    5And behold, I plan to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build a house for my name.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    78%

    2But I have built a house of habitation for you, and a place for your dwelling forever.

  • 1 Chr 29:19
    77%

    19And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the LORD God of Israel.

    7And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God:

  • 2 Chr 6:7-10
    4 verses
    77%

    7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

    8But the LORD said to David my father, Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well in that it was in your heart:

    9Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come from your loins, he shall build the house for my name.

    10The LORD therefore has performed his word that he has spoken; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 17:6
    77%

    6Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    77%

    13I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in forever.

  • Lev 26:3
    77%

    3If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them;

  • 1 Kgs 6:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

    14So Solomon built the house and finished it.

  • 1 Chr 28:10
    76%

    10Take heed now; for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

  • 1 Kgs 3:6
    76%

    6And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great mercy, as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    75%

    12He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
    75%

    6But if you or your children turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    75%

    1And Solomon resolved to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    75%

    12And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

  • 2 Sam 7:7
    75%

    7In all the places where I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

  • 2 Sam 7:25
    75%

    25And now, O LORD God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever, and do as you have said.

  • 1 Kgs 8:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.

    26And now, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

  • 1 Kgs 8:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18And the LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

    19Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come from your body, he shall build the house for my name.

    20And the LORD has performed his word that he spoke, and I have risen up in place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    74%

    1And it happened, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires which he was pleased to do,

  • 2 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3And Solomon sent to Huram, the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build a house to dwell in, so deal with me.

    4Behold, I build a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn sweet incense before him, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
    74%

    4That the Lord may continue His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
    74%

    2And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, and its width twenty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
    74%

    13He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

  • 2 Sam 7:5
    74%

    5Go and tell my servant David, Thus says the LORD, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?

  • 1 Chr 28:20
    74%

    20And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.