Quotes about Legacy

Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

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.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.

She bore sons to him: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.

But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.

So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.

but he sought the God of his father and walked by His commandments rather than the practices of Israel.