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Bible in Basic English

And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

New American Standard Bible

If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

If you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commands just as your father David did, I will give you a long life.”

International Standard Version

If you will live life my way, keeping my statutes and my commands, just like your father David did, I'll also increase the length of your life."

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified

If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and My commandments, as your father David did, then I will lengthen your days.”

Darby Translation

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will prolong thy days.

Julia Smith Translation

And if thou wilt go in my way to watch my law and my commands, as David thy father went, I prolonged thy days.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

If you will walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days."

Modern King James verseion

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep mine ordinances and commandments as David thy father did walk, I will lengthen thy days also."

NET Bible

If you follow my instructions by obeying my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, then I will grant you long life."

New Heart English Bible

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."

The Emphasized Bible

And, if thou wilt walk in my ways, by keeping my statutes, and my commandments, as, David thy father, walked, then will I lengthen out thy days.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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."

Youngs Literal Translation

and if thou dost walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as David thy father walked, then I have prolonged thy days.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And if thou wilt walk
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

in my ways
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

to keep
שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

and my commandments
מצוה 
Mitsvah 
Usage: 181

דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

then I will lengthen
ארך 
'arak 
Usage: 34

References

Context Readings

Solomon Requests Wisdom From God

13 And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal. 14 And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life. 15 And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.

Cross References

Psalm 91:16

With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

Proverbs 3:2

For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

1 Kings 3:6

And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.

1 Kings 15:5

Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

Proverbs 3:16

Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 25:15

But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Kings 2:3-4

And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

1 Kings 3:3

And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

1 Kings 9:4-5

As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

1 Chronicles 22:12-13

Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

2 Chronicles 7:17-19

And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

2 Chronicles 17:3-4

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

2 Chronicles 29:2

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.

2 Chronicles 34:2

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

Psalm 21:4

He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

Zechariah 3:7

These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.

Acts 13:22

And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.

1 Timothy 4:8

For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

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