Quotes About Lord

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.”

and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ëIf your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.í

“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.

And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”

So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”

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

The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.

And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request.

When Hiram received Solomonís message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!”

And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.

The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

But the LORD said to my father David, ëSince it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!

Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.

On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.

the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.

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

So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.