1 Kings 3:6
3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated
great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served
you faithfully, properly, and sincerely.
You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.
1 Kings 3:14
3:14 If you follow my instructions
by obeying
my rules and regulations, just as your father David did,
then I will grant you long life.”
1 Kings 2:3-4
2:3 Do the job the
Lord your God has assigned you
by following his instructions
and obeying
his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish,
2:4 and the
Lord will fulfill his promise to me,
‘If your descendants watch their step
and live faithfully in my presence
with all their heart and being,
then,’ he promised,
‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’
1 Kings 11:34
11:34 I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.
1 Kings 15:3
15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the
Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.
1 Kings 15:1
Abijah’s Reign over Judah
15:1 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah became king over Judah.
1 Kings 1:8-9
1:8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors
did not ally themselves
with Adonijah.
1:9 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened steers at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king’s sons,
as well as all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.
1 Kings 1:2
1:2 His servants advised
him, “A young virgin must be found for our master, the king,
to take care of the king’s needs
and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you
and keep our master, the king, warm.”
1 Kings 17:3-5
17:3 “Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
17:4 Drink from the stream; I have already told
the ravens to bring you food
there.”
17:5 So he did
as the
Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
John 14:15
Teaching on the Holy Spirit
14:15 “If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
John 14:21
14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys
them is the one who loves me.
The one
who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal
myself to him.”