Solomon’s Prayer

⁶ Then Solomon said, “^(A)You have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, ^(B)according as he walked before You in ^[a]truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and ^(C)You have ^[b]reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

^14 (A)If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will ^(B)prolong your days.”

⁴ For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and ^(A)his heart was not ^[a]wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

⁶ Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father had done.

⁸ Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

³ “^(A)Remember now, O Lord, I beseech You, ^(B)how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And ^(C)Hezekiah wept ^[a]bitterly.

Blessedness of the Fear of the Lord.

A Song of Ascents.