You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
      I. He summoned all the great men to attend him, that he might take leave of them all together, 1 Chronicles 28:1; 1 Chronicles 28:1. Thus Moses did (Deuteronomy 31:28), and Joshua, 1 Chronicles 23:2; 1 Chronicles 24:1. David would not declare the settlement of the crown but in the presence, and to the satisfaction, of those that were the representatives of the people.