Quotes about Legacy

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.

After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

As for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, along with all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.

And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.

And he brought into the house of the LORD the silver and gold and other articles that he and his father had dedicated.

So now I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat:

“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”

So the king died and was brought to Samaria, where they buried him.

And Ahab rested with his fathers, and his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.