Quotes about Legacy
Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
— 2 Samuel 14:27
The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
— 2 Samuel 16:8
During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
— 2 Samuel 18:18
Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
— 2 Samuel 21:7
So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, along with the bones of those who had been hanged.
— 2 Samuel 21:13
And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
— 2 Samuel 21:14
These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
— 2 Samuel 23:1
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan
— 2 Samuel 23:32
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan
— 2 Samuel 23:32
And as for you, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
— 1 Kings 1:20
Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”
— 1 Kings 1:21
Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon and make his throne even greater than that of my lord King David.”
— 1 Kings 1:37