1 Kings 1:20

Matthew⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁰ And nowe my lord king the eyes of all Israel wayte on the, to tell them who shal sytte on the seate of my Lorde the king after him.

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the eyes.
2 Chronicles 20:12; Psalms 25:15; Psalms 123:2; Zechariah 3:9
that thou.At this time the monarchy of Israel was unsettled; no man knew who was to succeed to the crown; and the minds of the people were as unsettled as the succession. It was neither hereditary nor elective: the king, as was anciently the case in most countries, named his successor; but in this instance, God had already assigned the throne to Solomon.
2 Samuel 23:2; 1 Chronicles 22:8-10; 1 Chronicles 28:5; 1 Chronicles 28:6; 1 Chronicles 28:10; 1 Chronicles 29:1