1 Kings 3:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

Thy servant

Numbers 12:7

2 Samuel 7:5

Great

Psalm 78:70

Mercy

According

Psalm 18:20

That

1 Kings 1:48

Bible References

Thy servant

My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house:

Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

Great

Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:

Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.

He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

Mercy

I will make a song to the Lord, because he has given me my reward.

Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.

Give me, your servant, the reward of life, so that I may keep your word;

So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

According

So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

That

Then the king said, May the God of Israel be praised, who has given one of my seed to be king in my place this day and has let my eyes see it.