Quotes About Legacy

Now then, be strong and courageous, for though Saul your lord is dead, the house of Judah has anointed me as their king.”

Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

and his sixth was Ithream, by Davidís wife Eglah. These sons were born to David in Hebron.

Meanwhile, Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my fatherís concubine?”

May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”

When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abnerís tomb, and all the people wept.

Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great prince has fallen today in Israel?

So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abnerís tomb in Hebron.

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,

Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with Your blessing the house of Your servant will be blessed forever.”

Then David asked, “Is there anyone left from the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for the sake of Jonathan?”