Jehovah had told Solomon: “If you will walk in my statutes and perform my judicial decisions and actually keep all my commandments by walking in them, I also shall certainly carry out my word with you that I spoke to David your father; and I shall indeed reside in the middle of the sons of Israel, and I shall not leave my people Israel. ” ​ — 1 Ki.
यहोवाने दाविदाशी असा करार केला: “तुझे घराणे व तुझे राज्य ही तुजपुढे अढळ राहतील; तुझी गादी कायमची स्थापित होईल. ” — २ शमु.