1 Kings 2:1-4

Coverdale(i) 1 Now whan the tyme came that Dauid shulde dye, he commaunded Salomon his sonne, and sayde: 2 I go the waye of all the worlde, Be thou stroge therfore, and shewe thyselfe a man, 3 and kepe the watch of the LORDE thy God, that thou walke in his wayes, and holde his ordinaunces, his commaundementes, his lawes, and his testimonies, as it is written in the lawe of Moses, that thou mayest be wyse in all that thou doest, and whither so euer thou turnest the: 4 that the LORDE maye rayse vp his worde, which he hath spoke ouer me, and saide: Yf thy children kepe their waye and walke before me faithfully and truly and with all their hert and withall their soule, the shal there neuer fayle the a man vpon the seate of Israel.