1 Kings 3:6
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6 Solomon answered: “You have shown great kindness to your servant, David my father, because he walked before you with fidelity, justice, and an upright heart; and you have continued this great kindness toward him today, giving him a son to sit upon his throne.
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1 Kings 9:4-5
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4 As for you, if you walk before me as David your father did, wholeheartedly and uprightly, doing all that I have commanded you, keeping my statutes and ordinances, 5 (A)I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father: There shall never be wanting someone from your line on the throne of Israel.
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Psalm 9:8-9
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III
8 The Lord rules forever,
has set up his throne for judgment.
9 It is he who judges the world with justice,(A)
who judges the peoples with fairness.
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