1-kings 3:14
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
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.
American King James Version (AKJV)
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.
American Standard Version (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.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
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.
Webster's Revision
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."
English Revised Version (ERV)
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.
Barnes's 1-kings 3:14 Bible Commentary
I will lengthen thy days - The promise here was only conditional. As the condition was not observed 1 Kings 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.
Wesley's 1-kings 3:14 Bible Commentary
3:14 And if - This caution God gives him, lest his wisdom should make him proud, careless, or presumptuous.
