Quotes About Legacy

(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)

Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

Go at once to King David and say, ëMy lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?í

“My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ëSurely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.í

Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”

“My lord the king,” said Nathan, “did you say, ëAdonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throneí?

Then King David said, “Call in Bathsheba for me.” So she came into the kingís presence and stood before him.

I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”

Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon and make his throne even greater than that of my lord King David.”

Moreover, Solomon has taken his seat on the royal throne.

As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,

“I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and prove yourself a man.

So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

The length of Davidís reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.

So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”

And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.

Their blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD forever.”

The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.

But King Solomon will be blessed and Davidís throne will remain secure before the LORD forever.”

Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”