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# As for you
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Here "you" refers to King Solomon.
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# if you walk before me as David your father walked
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Here walking is a metaphor for living. Walking before God represents living in obedience to him. Alternate translation: "If you obey me as David your father did" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# David your father
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Solomon was one of David's sons.
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# keeping my statutes and my decrees
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"obeying my statutes and my decrees"
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