Proverbs 4:3
For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.
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- 1 Chr 22:5 : 5 And David saith, `Solomon my son `is' a youth and tender, and the house to be built to Jehovah `is' to be made exceedingly great, for name and for beauty to all the lands; let me prepare, I pray Thee, for it;' and David prepareth in abundance before his death.
- 1 Chr 29:1 : 1 And David the king saith to all the assembly, `Solomon my son -- the one on whom God hath fixed -- `is' young and tender, and the work `is' great, for not for man is the palace, but for Jehovah God;
- Jer 10:23 : 23 I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man `is' his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.
- Zech 12:10 : 10 And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.
- Rom 12:16 : 16 of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;
- 2 Sam 12:24-25 : 24 And David comforteth Bath-Sheba his wife, and goeth in unto her, and lieth with her, and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Solomon; and Jehovah hath loved him, 25 and sendeth by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and calleth his name Jedidiah, because of Jehovah.
- 1 Kgs 1:13-17 : 13 go and enter in unto king David, and thou hast said unto him, Hast thou not, my lord, O king, sworn to thy handmaid, saying, Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne? and wherefore hath Adonijah reigned? 14 Lo, thou are yet speaking there with the king, and I come in after thee, and have completed thy words.' 15 And Bath-Sheba cometh in unto the king, to the inner chamber, and the king `is' very aged, and Abishag the Shunammite is serving the king: 16 and Bath-Sheba boweth and doth obeisance to the king, and the king saith, `What -- to thee?' 17 And she saith to him, `My lord, thou hast sworn by Jehovah thy God to thy handmaid: Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne;
- 1 Chr 3:5 : 5 And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon -- four, of Bath-Sheba daughter of Ammiel:
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