First Kings, chapter 2, we're looking at verses 1 through 4 in the New King James version.

Now the days of David, Jr., that he should die.

Many charge to Solomon, his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth, be strong, therefore

and prove yourself a man.

And keep the charge of the Lord, your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes,

his commandments, his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that

you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.

That the Lord may fulfill his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, if your sons

take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all

their soul, he said, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.

I believe that we see the picture of what a real man looks like.

And every male is not a man.

Every male should develop, grow into manhood, but every male is not necessarily a man.

You're starting to have a role already.

And prove yourself a man, a real man.

Keep the charge of the Lord, your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his

commandments, his judgments, and his testimonies, 1 Kings 11, 1 through 8.

But King Solomon loved better translation, lusted after many foreign women, original

King James Version, strange women.

Norquery in the Hebrew, women not chosen by God, women having no relationship with God,

ungodly women, but King Solomon loved many, strange women, as well as the daughter of

Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edoites, Sidonians, and Hittites, from the nation's

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