1 Kings 3:3

WEB

³Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

KJV

³And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

BSB

³And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

FBV

³Solomon showed he loved the Lord by following the instructions of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned offerings on the high places.

Extra References

1 Corinthians 8:3

³But anyone who loves God is known by him.

Psalms 31:23

²³Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

¹⁶For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 6:5

⁵You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

1 Kings 3:6

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

Deuteronomy 10:12

¹²Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

1 Kings 3:14

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

Deuteronomy 30:6

⁶The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Deuteronomy 30:20

²⁰to love the LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

2 Chronicles 17:3-5

³The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals, ⁴but sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel. ⁵Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.