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(A)I am going the way of all the earth. (B)So you shall be strong, and be a man. And you shall keep the responsibility given by Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, (C)according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that (D)you may be prosperous in all that you do and wherever you turn, so that (E)Yahweh may establish His promise which He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘(F)If your sons keep their way, (G)to walk before Me in [a]truth with all their heart and with all their soul, He said, [b](H)you shall not have a man cut off from the throne of Israel.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:4 Or faithfulness
  2. 1 Kings 2:4 Lit there shall not be cast off to you a man from before Me

“I am about to go the way of all the earth,”(A) he said. “So be strong,(B) act like a man, and observe(C) what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper(D) in all you do and wherever you go and that the Lord may keep his promise(E) to me: ‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully(F) before me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

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