1 Kings 10:9

WEB

Blessed is the Lord your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness."

KJV

Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.

Commentary

Blessed be the Lord thy God,.... Of whom she might have better notions than when she came out of her own country: which delighted in thee, to set thee on the t hrone of Israel; loved him with a love of complacency and delight, was Jedidiah, as he called him, beloved of the Lord, and therefore he chose him and preferred him to be king before his elder brother: because the Lord loved Israel for ever; to establish them as a kingdom for ever as they were, so long as obedient to him; see Ch2 9:8 , therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice; not merely for the sake of honour and glory, much less to indulge to pleasure and luxury, and still less to oppression and tyranny; but to administer justice and judgment to the people, which is the principal end of government; see Psa 72:1 .