1 Chronicles 22:8–9 (KJV)
But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.
I’m thinking just now of Adonijah assuming the throne of his father without consulting the king. I’m thinking of the prophet Nathan and of Bathsheba approaching the aging David with the problem. They not only knew that it was David’s wish that Solomon be the next king, but that it was Solomon who had been instructed to build the Temple, and that it had been God who told King David that it would be Solomon who was to succeed him on the throne.
Though I know of no other place in the Bible where God is said to have told David it was specifically Solomon who would succeed him, I need no other reference than this. I believe the Bible, and I believe David. Further, it is obvious that this message had been communicated to Bathsheba, and likely through Nathan the prophet. It is not a private interpretation.
I am reminded once again that the Bible is a whole book. One must take into account all the Word of God and not cherry-pick verses without considering the whole. So many doctrines I believe to be false (i.e., baptismal regeneration, certain reformed or Calvinistic doctrines, modalism, etc.) are built upon an almost stubborn, tunnel-vision interpretation of isolated passages. There is value in sometimes focusing on what one passage says about a thing, and it is wise to remember that, in our human limitations, we probably never tie things in perfectly. Still, we must not allow ourselves to force a passage to mean something that is inconsistent with the Bible as a whole.
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Private Interpretation or Plain Truth? What the Bible Really Says
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