He blessed David with that awesome legacy because David was a man after His own heart.īut David’s legacy had other effects and benefits too. He promised, He established David, He came to us, lived, died, and rose from the dead. He didn’t bless Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijam or us, because of anything we did. God promised David’ son, inheritors, and us that He would be our Father and we would be His sons, that He would discipline us, that his steadfast love would never leave us, and that David’s royal kingdom would always be certain before the LORD.
Part of God’s wonderful promise to David was that the Messiah would be his descendant. That promise is for also for us, the sons of God and coheirs with King Jesus. That promise was for David’s son Solomon and for all the kings who would be born after him. That promise was kept, even though Abijam was just as evil as Rehoboam, The Lord upheld the throne for David’s name sake. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’” When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. 10 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, 11 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. “And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you.
Abijam did evil but The Lord still allowed him to be king and protected his line because of David. But he did love God, and he had sought God’s will and loved Him. 4 Nevertheless, for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem, 5 because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”ĭavid’s relationship with the Lord wasn’t perfect, because David was not perfect. “And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father. Like his father, he did not follow the Lord. After Rehoboam died Abijam became king of Judah. But when his grandson Rehoboam did not follow The Lord most of Israel was ripped out of his hands and he became the king of Judah, with Benjamin also choosing to give their loyalty to the king. He was called a man after God’s own heart. David had been the second King of Israel and had followed the Lord. In Judah, the kingship passed from father to son. What you do, how you live affects not only you, but your children, grandchildren, and further descendants.
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