1 Kings 15:3-5

God is faithful for many generation to those who love Him.

He will take the very actions that should have destroyed us and our testimony and somehow turn it for His good. The child conceived in David’s union with an unwilling Bathsheba died as an infant. David prayed fervently to save the live of his child…it was not granted. There are consequences to our sin. All things hidden will be revealed.

Sins can be forgiven when we acknowledge them, repent and lay them at the feet of God. Christ within is our hope of restoration and peace.

What a loving, forgiving God we serve!

1 Kings 15:3-5

3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. 4 Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem; 5 because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. The New King James Version

The narrative does not mention Abijam’s specific sins. He apparently allowed the abominations instituted by Rehoboam, his father, to continue. The Hebrew word used here, nir (meaning “lamp”), describes a sign of life and hope. Faithlife Study Bible

The word translated loyal here denotes one who is wholly devoted to God. For David’s sake because of God’s love for David and the promise He had made to him.  This is one of the lovely images of God’s intended blessing on the Davidic house. The quality of David’s reign is celebrated. At the same time, his most grievous sin is not omitted. The NKJV Study Bible

The Son of David will still continue a light to his church, to establish it in truth and righteousness to the end of time. There are two kinds of fulfilling the law, one legal, the other by the gospel. Legal is, when men do all things required in the law, and that by themselves. None ever thus fulfilled the law but Christ. The gospel manner of fulfilling the law is, to believe in Christ who fulfilled the law for us, and to endeavour in the whole man to obey God in all his precepts. And this is accepted of God, as to all those that are in Christ. Thus David and others are said to fulfil the law. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

2 Samuel 11:3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

2 Samuel 11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.”

2 Samuel 11:16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.

2 Samuel 12:9 Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.