# You have shown great covenant faithfulness to your servant "You have been very faithful to your covenant with your servant" or "You have greatly and faithfully loved your servant" # because he walked before you in trustworthiness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart "because he was trustworthy and righteous, and his heart was upright" # in uprightness of heart "he was sincere" or "he spoke the truth and did what was good" # to sit on his throne "to rule in his place" # today Solomon is speaking of the years he had already been ruling, not of the time since the sun had last set.