²² And ^(A)when He had removed him, ^(B)He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ^(C)‘I have found David the son of Jesse, ^(D)a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’

⁷ Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ^(A)“Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, ⁸ and ^(B)tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, ^(C)who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;

³ And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; ^(A)his heart was not ^[a]loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. ⁴ Nevertheless ^(B)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 ^(C)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, ^(D)except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.