^{3 Ref} And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

^{4 Ref} But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

^{5 Ref} Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.