1 Chronicles 28:7
Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day. Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.
The promise belongs to God's charge entrusted to Solomon, whom God chose to be His son and to build His house and courts for the ark, the symbol of His presence. David himself had been refused permission to build, though he had gathered gold, silver, onyx stones and stones of divers colors, marble and precious wood, and thus he prepared for the temple and passed its construction to Solomon, with the younger man to carry out the work. The promise was spoken as the word of the Lord through His prophets and repeated by David to Solomon as a solemn charge to keep and seek all God's commandments and to adhere strictly to His law and keep all His statutes. David declared it when about to die in his last address, spoken with more than his wonted fervor and power despite physical weakness, to the princes of Israel and representative men from all parts of the kingdom whom he had summoned to receive the collected treasures in trust and to secure their concurrence and support, in the sight of all Israel and in the audience of God.
The verse makes the establishing and continuation of Solomon's kingdom forever conditional on his being constant, steadfast and faithful in doing God's commandments and judgments. Those who hold the fuller account add that the continuation, not only the establishing, hangs on that faithfulness. David gave the charge from solicitude lest Solomon follow his own example in grievous sin, having learned by experience that God in no case sanctions wrongdoing in prince or common subject and does not excuse wrongdoing in a king. God punishes the leader of His people more severely because his position is more responsible, because the sins of Israel's leaders lessen the people's sense of the heinousness of crime and can encourage the people in sin, and because they are noticed by nations that do not fear God and lead them to blaspheme the God of Israel.
The promise of blessing and honor and lasting establishment is paired with a charge to all Israel to keep and seek God's commands, so that the people might possess the good land and leave it for an inheritance to their children forever. The account shows that responsibility for God's work can pass to people newly qualified for it, while experienced workers advise, counsel and encourage them and support rather than hinder them. It is important to God's people in every age and shows that those appointed to serve in the work of God's kingdom must have genuine experience and dependable character fit for the sacred responsibilities entrusted to them, and those accepted in God's service must obey His instruction, and when they do His will with heart, mind and soul they represent His kingdom.