OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 8:25

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Now therefore, may LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

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Verse 25. Sight. Solomon was aware of the conditions on which he held his crown and the divine favour, so that his fall is the more inexcusable. Bible.—His posterity lost a great part of the kingdom, though they had the right to rule over Juda, till the coming of Christ. Worthington.

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