1 Kings 11:39

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1 Kings 11:37–41 · Berean Standard Bible

37 But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.

38 If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

39 Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”

40 Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.

41 As for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did, as well as his wisdom—are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?

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1 Kings 12:16

When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,

1 Kings 14:8

I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.

1 Kings 14:25

In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.

1 Kings 14:26

He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

Psalms 89:38

Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

Psalms 89:39

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

Psalms 89:40

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

Psalms 89:41

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Psalms 89:42

You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Psalms 89:43

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

Psalms 89:44

You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

Psalms 89:45

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

Psalms 89:49

Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

Psalms 89:50

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

Psalms 89:51

how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

1 Kings 11:36

I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

Psalms 89:30

If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

Psalms 89:31

if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

Psalms 89:32

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

Psalms 89:33

But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.

Psalms 89:34

I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Isaiah 11:1

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

Isaiah 11:2

The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

Isaiah 11:3

And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

Isaiah 11:5

Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.

Isaiah 11:6

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

Isaiah 11:7

The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

Isaiah 11:8

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

Isaiah 11:9

They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

Isaiah 11:10

On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.

Jeremiah 23:5

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

Jeremiah 23:6

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

Lamentations 3:31

For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

Lamentations 3:32

Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Luke 1:32

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

Luke 1:33

and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

Luke 2:4

So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.

Luke 2:11

Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!