Yet as the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father, to be King over Israel forever (for in Judah would he choose a prince, and of the house of [a]Judah is the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he delighted in me to make me king over all Israel)

So of all my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath even chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build mine house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 28:4 According to the prophecy of Jacob, Gen. 49:8.

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