Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 28:9

9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind; for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts : if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him , he will cast thee off for ever .

Know him so as to love him and serve him, as it follows: for Words of Knowledge in Scripture-use commonly imply Affection and Practise: or acknowledge him, as thy God, by loving and obeying him: For otherwise Solomon did already know God, having doubtless been very well instructed in the Knowledge of Gods Nature and Law.

If thou doest onely put on a profession of Religion to please me and secure thy Hopes of the Kingdom, or if thy obedience to God be unsincere and with grudging, thou mayest indeed deceive me, but thou canst not deceive him, for he searcheth thy inward Thoughts and the motions of thy Heart.

If when I am dead and gone, and thou art perfectly at thy own dispose, thou shalst cast off that Religion and Fear of God of which thou now makest profession, and shalt continue to do so without true Repentance for thine Errours.

Notwithwanding all his Promises made to me and to my seed, and that great Honour and Favour which he hath shewed to thee, with which possibly thou mayest flatter thy self.

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