4 "As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked , in integrity of heart and uprightness , doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances , 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever , just as I promised to your father David , saying , 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel .'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Kings 9:4-5
Commentary on 1 Kings 9:1-9
(Read 1 Kings 9:1-9)
God warned Solomon, now he had newly built and dedicated the temple, that he and his people might not be high-minded, but fear. After all the services we can perform, we stand upon the same terms with the Lord as before. Nothing can purchase for us liberty to sin, nor would the true believer desire such a licence. He would rather be chastened of the Lord, than be allowed to go on with ease and prosperity in sin.