1 Kings 3:6
Solomon replied, “You showed your servant David, my father, great trustworthy love because he lived his life before you with faithfulness, doing what was right and committed to principle. You have continued to show this great trustworthy love by giving him a son to sit on his throne to this day.
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Numbers 12:7But it's not like this with my servant Moses, who of all my people is the one who is faithful.
2 Samuel 7:8So then, tell my servant David this is what the Lord Almighty says. I was the one who took you from the fields, from looking after sheep, to become a leader of my people Israel.
2 Samuel 22:21The Lord rewarded me because I do what's right; he repaid me because I am innocent.
2 Samuel 22:47The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock! May the God who saves me be praised!
1 Kings 2:4If so, then the Lord will keep his promise to me when he said: ‘If your descendants are to live right before me, faithfully and with complete commitment, then you will always have one of them on the throne of Israel.’
1 Kings 15:5For David had done what was right in the Lord's sight, and had not deviated from anything the Lord commanded throughout his lifetime, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:6-16
God's Appearance to Solomon. ( b. c. 1014.) 5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king… Read the whole commentary →