1 Kings 15:5 meaning and explanation
For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 15:5, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator pauses in Abijam's reign to explain why God still kept a lamp in Jerusalem: David's wholehearted obedience. This is the Bible's own verdict on David, given in the context of 1 Kings 15, where Abijam followed his father's sins rather than David's devotion.
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