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-# Connecting Statement:
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-King Solomon continues praying.
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 # carry out what you have promised
 
-This is a request. To carry out what one has said is an idiom meaning to do what one has said. Alternate translation: "please do what you have promised" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
+"please do what you have promised" 
 
 # You will not fail to have a man
 
@@ -12,13 +8,13 @@ This is a request. To carry out what one has said is an idiom meaning to do what
 
 # a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel
 
-The phrase "in my sight" here implies that God would choose the man and the man would want to obey God. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
+The phrase "in my sight" implies that God would choose the man and the man would want to obey God. 
 
 # to sit on the throne of Israel
 
-The throne is a metonym for the activity of the one who sits on the throne. Alternate translation: "to rule over Israel" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
+"to rule over Israel"
 
 # to walk in my law, as you have walked before me
 
-The way a person behaves is spoken of as if that person were walking on a path. Alternate translation: "to obey my law, as you have obeyed me" or "to be faithful to my law as you have been faithful to me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+"to obey my law, as you have obeyed me" or "to be faithful to my law as you have been faithful to me"