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First Kings chapter 9 verses 4 and 5.

And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I've commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, then I will establish your royal throne

over Israel forever as I promised David your father saying you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.

So this is God speaking to Solomon

and telling him, follow me, keep your heart close to me,

just as David did.

Obviously, David was not perfect,

but even when he's sin, there was confession,

there was repentance, there was a heart that desired to please God and so this is what

God is calling Solomon too now you read on in the story and you realize Solomon did not follow the Lord. It didn't take long for

him to, in all kinds of ways, indulge in immorality, idolatry, and the

effects of that on his family were evident and ended up leading to civil war among God's people and a

splitting of the kingdom of Israel into two, the kingdom of Judah and the south and Israel

and the north. But the whole point is God had promised to David your throne will last forever. Now if it was dependent on

Solomon being sinless then that throne would have fallen apart really quickly. But thankfully, all throughout the history to come

after Solomon, we know that God's promise remained true because it wasn't dependent ultimately on Solomon or the kings who came after him

who were all sinful in different ways.

This covenant, this promise from God,

was dependent on a fully obedient son.

Son who would come from the line of David who would be completely and wholly obedient,

sinless.

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