It is obvious from David's micro-managing of the Temple details that he would have loved to be the one to build this for the Lord. But he carried the ball down the field as far as the Lord would allow and handed it off to Solomon. Some information about Solomon... He was not David's firstborn (Amnon was but was killed by Absalom in retaliation for the rape of Tamar) nor was he the oldest living son (Adonijah was), but God had told David that he would be king and David had made that public knowledge..
We saw in 2 Sam. 12:24-25 that when God gave Solomon the special name of “Jedidiah” (beloved of Jehovah) this was an intimation that Solomon would be the next king.
In 1 Chron. 22:9 we read that even before he was born the Lord announced that Solomon was called to be king over Israel, ‘Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.”
In 2 Chron. 22 and 28 when David announced the building of the new Temple, he publicly admitted that the Lord had told him that Solomon was to succeed him as king :
In 1 Chronicles 28:4-7 David says, “4 “Yet, the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. 5 “Of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. 6 “He said to me, ‘Your son Solomon is the one who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be a son to Me, and I will be a father to him. 7 ‘I will establish his kingdom forever if he resolutely performs My commandments and My ordinances, as is done now.’”
David swore privately to Bathsheba that Solomon her son would succeed him as King (1 Kings 1:13,17). This will become crucial when David is advanced in years and others come forward to claim his throne.
Tomorrow's reading: 1 Chron. 29:1-22; 1 Kings 1:1-53
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