Passage
and give to my son Solomon a whole heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the temple, for which I have made preparation.”
1 Chronicles 29:19 (LSB)
Nearby Context
1 Chronicles 29:17 And I know, O my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things. So now with gladness I have seen Your people, who are present here, make their offerings willingly to You.
1 Chronicles 29:18 O Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intentions of the heart of Your people, and prepare their heart to You;
1 Chronicles 29:19 and give to my son Solomon a whole heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the temple, for which I have made preparation.”
1 Chronicles 29:20 Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God.” And all the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed low and prostrated themselves to Yahweh and to the king.
1 Chronicles 29:21 And on the next day they made sacrifices to Yahweh and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, and 1,000 lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "give", "solomon", "whole", "heart", "keep", "commandments", "testimonies", and "statutes". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "give" and "solomon", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 18's "O Yahweh the God of Abraham Isaac..." into verse 20's "Then David said to all the assembly...", so "give" and "solomon" belong inside that flow. In 1 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "give" and "solomon" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.