2Sa 7:12-17, 12:24-25, 1Ch 22:9-10, 28:4-5, 29:1 | ESV | STEP | When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers , I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body , and I will establish his kingdom .

12 ^aWhen your days are fulfilled and ^byou lie down with your fathers, ^cI will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 ^dHe shall build a house for my name, and ^eI will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 ^fI will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, ^gI will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 ^hbut my steadfast love will not depart from him, ⁱas I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 16 ^jAnd your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew you} ^lYour throne shall be established forever.’” 17 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

2 Samuel 12:24-25

Solomon’s Birth

24 Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and ^mshe bore a son, and he called his name ⁿSolomon. And the Lord loved him 25 and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, ^{▼▼ Jedidiah means beloved of the Lord} because of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 22:9-10

9 Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. ^pI will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. ^qFor his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. 10 ^rHe shall build a house for my name. ^sHe shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

4 Yet the Lord God of Israel ^tchose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel ^uforever. ^vFor he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s ^whouse, and among my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. 5 And of ^xall my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he ^yhas chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:1

Offerings for the Temple

1 And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is ^zyoung and inexperienced, and the work is great, for ^aathe palace will not be for man but for the Lord God.