I Kings 9:3-5 "And the Lord said...'I have heard thy prayer...and if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and will keep my statutes and my judgments: then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.'"
The next verses go on to tell what will occur if Solomon does not follow after God, as his father, David did. There are stipulations to the promise every time.
God does not play favorites. Those who have a heart after him, follow him, and keep His commandments--their posterity will be effected and will have the blessings of God if they follow the way they have been taught. It's a generational law that God put into place from the very beginning.
Succeeding kings did evil or right and their plumb line or standard was the king who had a heart after God--David. That is how they were measured.
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