1 Kings 14:12-13
14:12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.
14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.
1 Kings 14:2
14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise
yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there.
1 Kings 1:25-29
1:25 For today he has gone down and sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. At this moment
they are having a feast
in his presence, and they have declared, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
1:26 But he did not invite me – your servant – or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah son of Jehoiada, or your servant Solomon.
1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants
who should succeed my master the king on his throne?”
David Picks Solomon as His Successor
1:28 King David responded, “Summon Bathsheba!” She came and stood before the king.
1:29 The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me from every danger),
Isaiah 57:1
57:1 The godly perish,
but no one cares.
Honest people disappear,
when no one minds
that the godly disappear because of evil.