1 Kings 1:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?

Assuredly

1 Kings 1:11

1 Chronicles 22:6

Sit

General references

1 Kings 1:46

Proverbs 4:3

Bible References

Assuredly

Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, and David our lord does not know it?

Then he called for his son Solomon, and charged him to build a house for the Lord God of Israel.

Sit

She said to him, “My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the Lord your God, saying, ‘Surely your son Solomon shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne.’

And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.

“Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll

in the presence of the Levitical priests.

Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father; and he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

The Lord has sworn to David
A truth from which He will not turn back:
“Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.

There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace,
On the throne of David and over his kingdom,
To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness
From then on and forevermore.

The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.

then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.

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

General references

Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom.

When I was a son to my father,

Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,