Quotes About Legacy

So King Solomon ruled over Israel,

Ben-abinadab in Naphath-dor (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);

Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

Baana son of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth;

Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his fatherís place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.

So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.

Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.í

Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ëYou will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.í

May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us nor forsake us.

then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ëYou will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.í

As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was such an abundance of spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the kingís palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen to this day.)

So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.

Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.